3 NBA FanDuel Studs to Target on 1/26/18

James Harden, SG, Houston Rockets

Price: $11,400

Back to a full workload after recovering from a hamstring injury, James Harden notched a 55.5-FanDuel-point performance (his best in his four games back) on Wednesday.

Now that he's full-go again, we can expect him to quickly return to the kind of dominating performances he was putting up in December. He topped 65 FanDuel points in four of his last six games before the injury and was being priced fairly consistently in the $12,000 range. His 53.5 fantasy points per game on the season are also still good for second in the NBA.

He torched the New Orleans Pelicans for 67.7 FanDuel points in their first meeting this season, and with the way they have performed against wings this year, it would be no surprise if we got a repeat performance tonight.

The Pels rank bottom-10 in defensive rating while playing at a top-six pace and are allowing opponents the 2nd-most points, 6th-most assists, and 10th-most rebounds per game. Both shooting guards and small forwards have dropped top-nine fantasy numbers on them.

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