Ladies and gentlemen, the time has arrived. Gone are the pretenders of the NBA regular season, it's playoff time and that means teams and players giving it every ounce of energy and power they have to try and stay alive. The top players in the game are going at it and with four games on the NBA DFS slate for April 16, the games have been cutdown to four games.

But there are still some elite players for us to target and build our lineups around and the value plays are out there as well, though we'll be spending a little bit more than usual. Let's take a look at some elite players, value plays and msut-avoid players for the NBA DFS playoff slate on April 16.