3 NBA DraftKings Value Plays to Target on 1/9/19

Jakob Poeltl, C, San Antonio Spurs

DraftKings Price: $3,600

You aren't going to see Jakob Poeltl's name screamed from fantasy mountaintops on a nightly basis, nor should you. The third-year player is putting up just 5.9 points and 5.2 boards in an average of 15.7 minutes this season.

Those numbers should hardly get you excited in most cases, but they aren't bad. In fact, he's done enough to average just over 1.0 DraftKings points per minute this year, which is important to remember on nights when he can potentially get more run, like tonight.

Rudy Gay has been ruled out for this evening's contests against the Memphis Grizzlies. Poeltl entered the starting lineup and played 27 minutes when Gay missed Monday's game. We can't know how Pop is going to arrange his starters tonight, but even if Poeltl doesn't get the starting nod, he should almost certainly see a big bump in playing time again.

Our models indicate that he'll see roughly 24.8 minutes of run and score 23.7 DraftKings points in the process. That would equate to nearly 6.6 DraftKings points per $1,000, which is our second-highest projected value on the slate.