3 NBA FanDuel Studs to Target on 1/31/19

Kevin Durant, SF, Golden State Warriors

Price: $9,400

Kevin Durant is priced nice and low tonight, with $9,400 being tied for the second-lowest salary he has sported all season. Coming off a dud in which he dropped only 27.1 fantasy points, the drop in cost might seem reasonable on the surface. Even the four games before that, looking at his performance since the debut of DeMarcus Cousins, KD averaged only 44.8 per game.

That's due, in large part, to a big drop in efficiency with Boogie on the floor. With Cousins on the court, KD is averaging 1.06 FanDuel points per minute on only a 23.0% usage rate.

We're dealing with small sample sizes here, though, and the numbers aren't overly reliable. For example, no non-Cousins Warriors player has a higher usage rate with Boogie on the floor than Klay Thompson. In fact, in the 58 minutes Klay, Durant, Cousins and Steph Curry have shared the floor, Klay leads the team in usage (29.3%).

With the variance inherent in those short-term numbers, we can expect at least a small bounce-back out of Durant. That leaves him priced much closer to his floor than his ceiling tonight.

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