3 NBA DraftKings Studs to Target on 1/17/19

Joel Embiid, C, Philadelphia 76ers

DraftKings Price: $10,100

At home or on the road, Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has been consistently dominant, averaging 53.9 (home) and 54.2 (road) DraftKings points per game. Tonight, the Sixers head to Indianapolis to take on the Indiana Pacers.

The Pacers enter this game with a 29-14 record, two games up in the loss column over the Sixers. Indiana is 15-5 at home, and the Sixers are just 10-12 on the road, so Philly should have a fight on its hands, which means that Embiid will be in little danger of seeing a reduction in minutes. In fact, he's averaging 35.1 minutes on the road this season, 3.5 more than he averages at home.

The Sixers have faced the Pacers twice already this season. Embiid is averaging 58.4 DraftKings points in those two games, though that number masks two very disparate performances. He scored 43.0 DraftKings points in the first meeting and a whopping 73.75 in the second. He is averaging 1.6 DraftKings points per minute in six career games against the Pacers, however, and has topped 50.0 DraftKings points against them in two of his past three.

We have Embiid projected for 52.4 DraftKings points this evening. That number is the second-highest projected output on the slate, per our models, behind only Westbrook.