FanDuel
Dennis Schroder , SG OKC -- $5,500
Let’s face the facts here. This price tag? Too cheap. It’s too cheap when OKC is at full strength, but they’re missing multiple pieces tonight including Danilo Gallinari . Schroder has played 36 and 37 minutes in back-to-back games and in each one of those contests he’s given us 36-plus FP. Schroder receives a team-high usage bump of 3.8-percent sans Gallinari and leads the team in USG overall at 30.9-percent. He’s also averaging over a FP/min without Gallinari, which needed to be mentioned as well. Over the last month, Portland has allowed the eighth most FP/game, so just another boost for Schroder here.
OG Anunoby , SF TOR -- $5,100
Anunoby once again drew the start at shooting-guard on Friday and put up another big performance, pouring in 36 FP for the second straight game. They draw a Minnesota team that allows the fifth most fantasy points to opposing shooting-guards this year. He’s had three or more steals in each of the last two games, which boosts his stock on FanDuel even more. Anunoby’s scoring output has been impressive lately considering he’s gone for 18-plus actual points or more in three-of-four.
Norman Powell , SG TOR -- $4,800
Powell is only 4.8K on FD? You don’t say. He scored 28 actual points on Friday which would alone surpass 5x at this salary, which was the third straight game he scored 20-plus points and sixth time over his last seven dating back to December -- before his injury. With the Raptors starting Anunoby at shooting-guard, it gives Powell the chance to come off of the bench and be the Raptors primary scorer on the second unit. This is an elite price for a guy that is scoring at an elite level right about now.
DraftKings
Marcus Smart , PG/SG BOS -- $5,500
Boston will be without both Kemba Walker and Jaylen Brown on Saturday which means more Marcus Smart both offensively and defensively. Smart gets a solid 2.5-percent usage increase with both of them out while averaging 1.08 FP/min. This is a nice pace-up spot for Boston and a match-up for Smart against a Suns team ranking worse than league average against both point-guards and shooting-guards, which are both positions we’ll see Smart play at this evening. Boston is likely going to be popular, Smart included.
Anfernee Simons , PG/SG POR -- $3,100
After C.J. McCollum exited Friday’s game, Simons started the second half and ended up playing 28 minutes overall. If we’re basing things of that, we should see Simons draw a start like he did on January 5th when McCollum missed that one. During that game on the 5th, Simons played 34 minutes, scored 19 points and put up 29.5 DK points. Even if he doesn’t start he figures to play a prominent role with the Blazers sans McCollum. If he’s starting he’s a lock and load play for all formats.
Mario Hezonja , SF/PF POR -- $3,000
Well the Blazers just shipped Kent Bazemore out of town which opens up a lot of minutes at the small-forward position for them this evening. We actually saw Hezonja start the second half of Friday night’s game over Bazemore, maybe a preview of what’s to come. Portland did get Trevor Ariza back in the trade, so Hezonja isn’t the long term solution, he’s simply just a bandaid. Hezonja has actually started four games this year and his averages are 25.6 MPG, 5.5 PPG, 6.5 RPG, 2.5 APG and 1.2 SPG. He’s a min salary punt that allows you to jam in multiple stars on DK.