3 NBA DraftKings Studs to Target on 3/8/19

James Harden, PG/SG, Houston Rockets

DraftKings Price: $11,000

The most expensive player on tonight's slate just so happens to be the player our models project to score the most DraftKings points. That player is, of course, Houston Rockets guard James Harden.

After Harden's 32-game streak of scoring 30 or more points ended on February 25 (he had the gall to score only 28), he decided to start a new one. He's now scored 30-plus in each of his past four games, including a 58-point effort against the Miami Heat a week ago yesterday.

Tonight, he'll have all of the opportunity to push his new streak to five games as the Rockets take on the Philadelphia 76ers in what's expected to be one of the highest-scoring games of the night. To say Harden has succeeded against the Sixers in his career would be to discount his achievements. The last time he failed to score 50.0 or more DraftKings points against them was all the way back on December 19, 2012. Yeah, over six years ago.

Roll him out with confidence as you would most nights. We project him to score 60.8 DraftKings points this evening, easily our highest-projected total for any player.