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3 NBA FanDuel Studs to Target on 11/21/18

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Anthony Davis, PF, New Orleans Pelicans

Price: $12,200

The only player who has topped 70 more times than the King, Anthony Davis has done so four times, accounting for over 30% of all such games this season across the entire NBA.

He continues to average the league's most fantasy points by a big margin, with 60.0 FanDuel per game, and he hasn't posted fewer than 55 FanDuel points in any of his last seven games. That stretch has seen him average a particularly absurd 64.1 per game.

The Philadelphia 76ers aren't an ideal matchup. They rebound well (top-10 in total rebound rate) and play solid defense (top-12 defensive rating), but that hasn't left them immune to big fantasy performances against them in the frontcourt.

They have faced Nikola Vucevic twice this season, allowing 64.6 and 50.6 FanDuel points to him in the two games. They got tagged for 46 FanDuel points in one of their two games against Andre Drummond. Marc Gasol notched 46 against them. Even Pascal Siakam hit them up for 42 FanDuel points.

Yes, these are a few cherry-picked games, but that group alone makes up for significant fantasy production by bigs in more than a quarter of their games, and none of those guys average even 80% as many FanDuel points per game as Davis does.

AD's floor and ceiling are both the best in the league, and while a mediocre matchup on a huge slate would usually be a situation in which you can consider fading him, his salary is the lowest it has been in two weeks, meaning he's once again a top play.