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3 NBA FanDuel Value Plays to Target on 2/14/19

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Kadeem Allen, PG, New York Knicks

FanDuel Price: $4,000
Projected FanDuel Points: 25.2
Projected FanDuel Value: 6.3

If New York Knicks guard Kadeem Allen isn't the highest-owned value play on the slate, he has only teammate Mitchell Robinson to blame (more on that in the next slide). On any other three-game slate, a $4,000 player who has scored at least 27.6 FanDuel points in three straight games would be drooled over and rightly so.

Allen, who joined the Knicks very recently in mid-January and didn't get his first minutes until January 28, has seemingly turned a corner over the past three games and has become one of the main offensive focal points for a Knicks team that is in desperate need of scorers. The Knicks, who are averaging the fifth-fewest points in the league this year, are in the midst of an 18-game losing streak. And the Phoenix Suns and their 15 straight losses thought they could take the lead in the race to the most ping pong balls for the draft. Tsk. Tsk.

The Knicks have nothing to gain by winning, so young players like Allen should continue to see a ton of run for the rest of the season. David Fizdale has trained me to never believe that he's reliable in his minutes distribution, however, so take that with a grain of salt.

Even with the Fiz risk, Allen is in a good spot here to continue his recent success. He faces an Atlanta Hawks defense that is giving up the most FanDuel points per game to both opposing guard positions this season. Our current projections for tonight call for Allen to score 25.2 FanDuel points and return the most value on the slate.