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3 NBA DraftKings Studs to Target on 3/25/19

Brett Oswalt  —  @bRo14thekid Mar 25th, 2019
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Nikola Vucevic, C, Orlando Magic

DraftKings Price: $9,200

Opposing Embiid is fellow All-Star Nikola Vucevic, who is having a career year for the 9 seed Magic. The 7' big man is producing personal bests in all of points (20.7), rebounds (12.1), assists (3.9) and blocks (1.2) on his way to 47.1 DraftKings points per game. His 27.2% usage rate is up more than 2% from a year ago and has jumped to 27.8% through 10 games this month.

All Vooch has done with that workload is average 47.9 DraftKings points with eight outings of the double-double variety. His rock-bottom in that time is 32.5, and he's had two games with 60-plus. And in the five home games alone, he's accounted for 21.2 points, 13.0 rebounds and 49.1 DraftKings points despite having his worst shooting month of the year (49.4% from the floor and 16.7% from three).

While Embiid has had success in this same matchup, Vucevic has benefited from it all the same. Before being held to 32.5 DraftKings points in the last meeting, he tallied 70.75 and 51.0 with the former coming against a healthy Embiid. To boot, Philly allows the sixth-most assists and is in the middle of the pack against opposing fantasy big men this season.

If you are willing to pivot off Embiid or swallow the salary of two top-notch centers, Vooch could pay off big in this head-to-head clash. He's only one of three players we project for over 50 fantasy points, and it his price that would return better than 5.5 points per $1,000 -- a top-10 rate among all of Monday's options.


Brett Oswalt is not a FanDuel employee. In addition to providing DFS gameplay advice, Brett Oswalt also participates in DFS contests on FanDuel using his personal account, username BRO14THEKID. While the strategies and player selections recommended in his articles are his personal views, he may deploy different strategies and player selections when entering contests with his personal account. The views expressed in his articles are the author's alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of FanDuel.

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