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With eight games on the schedule for Friday night, the daily fantasy basketball slate offers just enough star power to make picking a lineup tricky. Our experts (Al Zeidenfeld, Joe Kaiser and Renee Miller) provide their picks and fades to get you ready for the night across the Association.Building blockAl Zeidenfeld -- Chris Paul, LA ClippersThe Clippers and Chris Paul have been absolutely dominant early on in the season, so much so that the blowouts have kept his fantasy numbers down just a bit. Tonights contest in Oklahoma City should be more closely contested and therefore keep CP3 generating fantasy points well into the fourth quarter. Building balanced lineups has proven profitable early on in the season on DraftKings, and Paul is a superstar with a great chance of scoring 45 or more fantasy points at only $8,900 tonight.Joe Kaiser -- Carmelo Anthony, New York KnicksBoston cant stop anybody right now as they play without Al Horford and Jae Crowder and the stats tell the story. Not only are the Celtics the worst defense in the league entering Friday, they are 3.3 points worse per 100 possessions than the next worst team (Orlando). On a night with LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George and several other strong small forward options, Anthony is the one Im focusing on as great value in the $7,000s on both DraftKings and FanDuel. Remember, Otto Porter Jr. lit up these Celtics on Wednesday for 34 points, 14 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks. Look for Anthony to fly past his salary value tonight.Renee Miller -- Blake Griffin, LA Clippers Griffin tends to get a bad rep in fantasy and basketball circles for a number of reasons, but he has hit the ground running this year. Hes scored double-digit points in every game so far, with six double-doubles in the Clippers eight games played this season (averaging 19/10). He didnt have a great game when these teams met last week, shooting just 33 percent, but Im not holding one game against him. The Western Conference rivalries make for great basketball -- high scoring and competitive -- and the Clippers are looking like the team to beat right now. Griffins strong play is a big reason for that. He fits well into cash game or tournament lineups on either site, but is a slightly better value at FanDuel.FadeAl Zeidenfeld -- Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio SpursThis isnt about Leonards talent or his fantasy value, its more about roster construction. I dont think I can afford to pay up to get Kawhi into my head-to-head lineups tonight because of how many guards I will be spending on. Because of those guards, I will have to find at least a little value at the forward spots. Even saving $1,500-$2,000 at the position will be massive, and I just dont see a path to playing Kawhi even though hes been someone I jammed into more lineups than any other player over the course of the first two weeks of the season.Joe Kaiser -- Otto Porter Jr., Washington WizardsRecency bias is going to inflate Porters ownership numbers on Friday just two days after the best game of his life. But as I mentioned above, that game came against the worst defense in the league, and things get much tougher tonight against Cleveland. Not only are the Cavs ranked 13th in defensive efficiency, they also have a chance to blow past a 2-5 Wizards team that was struggling mightily before the win over the Celtics. If this turns into a blowout, theres a good chance Porter wont reach his season average of 34.9 minutes. Im looking elsewhere tonight at small forward.Renee Miller -- Kyrie Irving, Cleveland Cavaliers Ive tried to get behind Irving a few times this season and he has fallen short of where Id like to see him given his salary (upper 40s in fantasy points), even in the best of matchups. Tonight hell have his hands full with John Wall and the Wizards, who have been fairly stingy vs. opposing point guards. Irvings assist and rebounding numbers are so low that if he doesnt score 30 points, hes not meeting value. Ill take one of the top three tonight at PG, instead.Al Zeidenfeld is a promoter & user at DraftKings (Username: Al_Smizzle) and plays on his personal account in games he offers advice on. These views/strategies are his own and do not reflect the views of DraftKings. He may also deploy different players/strategies than what he advises.Khari Willis Jersey . Manuel was offered a position the day he was fired. He accepted earlier this week and the team made the announcement Friday. 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With the crowd roaring in approval, they put on a fight that lived up to its advance billing.In the end, Ward won a narrow decision Saturday night to take Kovalevs light heavyweight titles in a battle between two unbeaten boxers.Ward survived a second-round knockdown and relentless pressure from Kovalev, doing just enough to win by a point on all three ringside scorecards. He remained unbeaten in his last 20 years in the ring, but it wasnt without some moments of worry.This was a beautiful thing. We did it baby, Ward said. Im a five-time world champion in two different weight classes. Man, its amazing.All three ringside judges had Ward winning 114-113. The Associated Press had Kovalev ahead 116-111.It was a fight of my life, Kovalev said. I am disappointed in the judges decision. He got maybe a few rounds, I agree with that. I kept control. I lost maybe three rounds the whole fight.Ward won all of the last six rounds on two scorecards, and five of six on a third. He won the final round on two of the scorecards.Kovalev knocked down Ward in the second round and chased him around the ring much of the early part of the fight. But Ward dug deep and managed to land some good punches of his own in a fight that built to a climax in the later rounds.The crowd of 13,310 at the T-Mobile Arena was on its feet in the late rounds as the two fighters went after each other, neither giving an inch. In the end, the judges favored Wards counter punching against the aggressive style of Kovalev.We were a little careless with that knockdown in the second round, said Wards trainer, Virgil Hunter. But we landed the cleaner punchesBoth fighters were unbeaten with almost identical records. Ward was 30-0 with 15 knockouts and Kovalev was 30-0-1 with 26 knockouts.It was a classic boxer versus puncher battle, and it looked like the puncher would prevail as Kovalev won the early rounds. But Ward kept punching and landed some good shots of his own in the middle rounds, and there were plenty of close rounds that could have gone either way.I knew it was going to be a tough fight -- it was the 1st time in my career I was dropped, Ward said. He did everything I expected him to do. He started to fight like I expected.Kovalevs promoter, Kathy Duva, said she would use the rrematch clause in the contract for a second fight.ddddddddddddHe won the first six rounds so I dont know how he could lose a decision, Duva said. Im happy we had a great fight. Boxing needed a great fight.The fight was billed as a matchup of U.S. and Russian fighters, with the 2004 Olympic gold medalist Ward against a Russian who lives mostly in the Los Angeles area. It was a classic matchup of puncher versus boxer, and for the early part of the fight the puncher was winning.Kovalev flashed his power early, hitting Ward with a left hand midway through the first round that briefly wobbled Wards legs. Ward grabbed and held on and finished the round jabbing at the Russian, but the tone of the fight was set early.Midway through the second round, both fighters threw right hands but it was Kovalevs that landed flush to the side of Wards head, putting him on the canvas. He got up quickly and smiles as if not hurt but needed all of his supreme defensive skills to make it out of the round.Ward seemed unwilling to go inside after that, moving backward and trying to land jabs to control the action. But he abandoned the style that had served him so well over the years and fought moving backward, throwing only one punch at a time, as Kovalev constantly pressed the attack.Ward did have some moments, including the seventh round when he landed a good left that snapped Kovalevs head back.Ward earned $5 million, while Kovalev was paid $2 million plus a percentage of pay-per-view.On the undercard, two-time Olympic gold medalist Claressa Shields made her pro debut a successful one, winning a decision over Franchon Crews in a four-round super middleweight fight.Shields came back from a slow first round to land the bigger punches in an entertaining fight. Both women, fighting without headgear for the first time, traded punches freely but Shields won all over four rounds on the scorecards of the three ringside judges.Shields, who became the first American woman to win a gold medal in the 2012 Olympics and added another in Rio in August, had vowed to be impressive in her first pro fight. And she wasnt shy about trading punches with Franchon, a Baltimore fighter who lost to her during the Olympic trials in 2012. ' ' '