3 NBA DraftKings Value Plays to Target on 1/8/19

Enes Kanter, C, New York Knicks

DraftKings Price: $5,500

Let me just preface this by saying that Enes Kanter is little more than a lottery ticket on any given night. Does he have the talent to help give you a killer lineup? Dang skippy. The unfortunate thing, however, is that he has to deal with coach David Fizdale's rotations on a nightly basis.

The New York Knicks head coach seems like he's playing mind games with his $18.6 million center. Kanter hasn't been in the starting lineup in any of the past five games, and he's seen as few as 14 minutes in one of those contests. Fortunately, his minutes have been trending upwards, even if he hasn't been included in the starting five.

He's averaged 28 minutes over his past two games, more than enough time to inflict damage for a guy who's averaging 1.25 DraftKings points per minute this season. Kanter has scored at least 36.5 DraftKings points in each of his past three games and put up 25.75 DraftKings points in just 20 minutes when he faced off against tonight's opponent -- the Golden State Warriors -- earlier this season.

Given his volatile minutes, you would be best to reserve Kanter for tournaments this evening. That being said, we project the big man to score 31.6 DraftKings points tonight. The resulting value of nearly 5.8 DraftKings points per minute is numberFire's eighth-highest projected value on the slate.