3 NBA DraftKings Value Plays to Target on 2/5/18

Robin Lopez, C, Chicago Bulls

DraftKings Salary: $4,600

On the other side of that game, everyone's attention will be focused on Zach LaVine ($6,600) and Bobby Portis ($6,200), but don't forget about Robin Lopez.

With Mirotic out of town and Lauri Markkanen not expected to return to the team until Friday, Chicago is very thin in the frontcourt heading into this game. Lopez has averaged 32 minutes in their two most recent games without Mirotic and Markkanen, and he has parlayed the extended run into an average of 22.5 DraftKings points. While that doesn't sound like much, it is almost exactly what he needs (23 DraftKings points) to reach 5 points per every $1,000 in salary at this bargain-bin price.

It is also important to note that those two games came against DeAndre Jordan and Jusuf Nurkic, both of whom are strong individual defenders and play for teams that have been excellent at limiting opposing bigs. Lopez should find things much easier tonight against a Kings team that has allowed the fourth-most DraftKings points per game to opposing centers. Sacramento ranks dead last in defensive efficiency and 28th in rebounding rate, so it really couldn't get much easier than this for Lopez.

Our projections have Lopez as the fifth-best point-per-dollar value on DraftKings today, and he is a viable salary-saving option in any format.

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