3 NBA FanDuel Studs to Target on 12/3/18

Anthony Davis, PF, New Orleans Pelicans

Price: $12,700

As is often the case, the New Orleans Pelicans' game has the highest over/under on the slate, sitting at 237.5 today and making Anthony Davis as appealing as ever.

This game against the Los Angeles Clippers also projects to be a close one -- a 2.5-point spread means there's little blowout risk, and combining that with the high over/under leaves the Pels with the day's second-highest implied total (120.0).

For as well as the Clippers have played this year, they have still made for a solid fantasy matchup. They play at the league's eighth-fastest pace, and combining that with a 13th-ranked defensive rating and 18th-ranked rebound rate has them allowing the 8th-most points and 6th-most rebounds per game to opponents. They also allow the fourth-most blocks per game and give up top-five fantasy production to opposing centers (where Davis plays most of his minutes, despite the power forward designation on FanDuel).

Davis' fantasy value doesn't need much introduction at this point in the season -- his 61.3 FanDuel points per game are 4.6 more than any other player is averaging and are on pace to be the most averaged in a season since the 1993-94 campaign (if we go back and apply FanDuel scoring to years before it existed).

Davis has at least 66.7 FanDuel points in three of his last four outings, and his last game saw him put up his second-highest mark of the season (78.8). He's not likely to slow down much tonight in a plus matchup.