3 NBA DraftKings Studs to Target on 10/23/18

Nikola Mirotic, SF/PF, New Orleans Pelicans

DraftKings Price: $7,200

What's better than one Nikola? Two Nikolas! New Orleans Pelicans forward Nikola Mirotic is off to the best start of his career. Mired in power forward purgatory in Chicago for the first few years of his career, Mirotic's trade to New Orleans almost instantly unleashed his potential.

He's opened the season with back-to-back 30-point games (well, 30 and 36, to be specific), and pulled down at least nine boards in each contest thus far. With Anthony Davis commanding so much attention down low, Mirotic has seen a ton of space on the floor, and he's using it to his advantage.

Mirotic has hit 11-of-17 three pointers through two games. That 5.5-per-game mark is as many as Stephen Curry is averaging. While it's asinine to think Mirotic could match Curry shot-for-shot all season, having a 6'10 power forward able to shoot so well from deep makes New Orleans a very difficult team to defend.

He's topped 50 DraftKings points in each of his first two games, yet his price has climbed just $900 to $7,200. We don't project him for that much tonight--we have him at 35.5--but he offers that type of upside every night, especially in a game with a total set at a massive 238.5 points.

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