The fourth Saturday of the NBA season offers a generous 11-game slate featuring five superstars priced above $11,000. Let’s take a look at the squad:
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Point Guards
Steph Curry (GSW): $9,500 v. PHI
Curry is the best point guard on the slate, averaging 1.37 points per minute, despite being priced lower than John Wall. I’ll bypass the extra $600 I could spend on Wall, and take Curry against the Sixers who offer a great matchup for opposing point guards.
Mike James (PHX): $5,600 v. MIN
Mike James has been consistent, yet unspectacular over his last five games, but does have that blow-up potential as evidenced by his 46 pointer a couple weeks back against Brooklyn. The matchup is right for it as the Timberwolves come to town who rank 30th against PGs this season. James is the lowest priced point guard that has flashed 45 point potential on the slate this Saturday.
Shooting Guards
Tim Hardaway Jr (NYK): 6,300 v. SAC
The fourth Saturday of the NBA season offers a generous 11-game slate featuring five superstars priced above $11,000. Let’s take a look at the squad:
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Point Guards
Steph Curry (GSW): $9,500 v. PHI
Curry is the best point guard on the slate, averaging 1.37 points per minute, despite being priced lower than John Wall. I’ll bypass the extra $600 I could spend on Wall, and take Curry against the Sixers who offer a great matchup for opposing point guards.
Mike James (PHX): $5,600 v. MIN
Mike James has been consistent, yet unspectacular over his last five games, but does have that blow-up potential as evidenced by his 46 pointer a couple weeks back against Brooklyn. The matchup is right for it as the Timberwolves come to town who rank 30th against PGs this season. James is the lowest priced point guard that has flashed 45 point potential on the slate this Saturday.
Shooting Guards
Tim Hardaway Jr (NYK): 6,300 v. SAC
Many will chalk up THJ’s 40-pointer in his previous game to the absence of Porzingis, but Hardaway has recovered after a dreadfully slow start to the season. It should be noted that Hardaway’s biggest game came with Porzingis on the floor. Hardaway is averaging about 34 points per game and still remains underpriced at $6,300 in a good matchup with the Kings.
Bogdan Bogdanovic (SAC): $3,700 @ NYK
Not to be confused with his evil twin Bojan Bogdanovic, He has slowed since a hot start to the season but is now at his lowest price of the season at $3,700. He’s still starting and coming off a decent showing with 19.6 points in 23 minutes. If you’re willing to go this cheap with your plays in order to fit in a couple of five-digit superstars, then Bogdanovic is a worth a look as a high-floor player with a ceiling around 30 points.
Small Forwards
Taurean Prince (ATL): $5,700 @ WAS
I always like taking a chance on guys who offer 45-point upside for under $6,000. Prince matches up with the Wizards who rank 23rd defensively against SFs this season. I don’t expect the Hawks to push Marco Belinelli into playing 30 minutes once again on a back-to-back which only increases Prince’s appeal. Bazemore had the big game for the Hawks last night against the Pistons so the big game will likely come from somebody else tonight. Prince is averaging a strong 28.2 points in the second half of back-to-backs this season.
Chandler Parsons (MEM): $3,400 @ HOU
Revenge game? Parsons is another guy that I’m taking in order to afford some more “premium” players. Parsons has actually seen 20+ minutes in two straight games. He put up 31 points in 21 minutes against the Clippers and then responded with .4 points (actually) against the Blazers. At $3,400, I’ll be happy with something in the middle… say 20 points or so.
Power Forwards
Otto Porter Jr (WAS): $7,000 v. ATL
Porter continues to see heavy minutes even with the return of Markieff Morris. Porter is the lowest priced starting PF averaging over a point per minute while on the floor, and he gets a prime match-up with the Hawks who play very little defense. Porter’s price is creeping back up towards the mid-7000s once again.
Anthony Davis (NOR): $11,600 v. LAC
He will probably end up getting hurt in the middle of the game since I’m taking him, but I’m expecting a monster from AD if he doesn’t. AD has at least 60 points in his last five games priced below $11,800. He’s coming off a clunker as far as AD is concerned with a season-low 41.4 points against the Raptors. Expect him to bounce back in a big way against the Clippers.
Center
Brook Lopez (LAL): $6,400 @ MIL
Lopez can be absolutely infuriating in almost every way possible. He doesn’t rebound and runs the risk of getting minutes in the low-20s in any given game. However, he also offers that blow-up potential. Lopez is averaging 1.3 points per minute over his last five games, and will probably see a heavy dose of minutes on Saturday having played only 22 minutes and 18 minutes in back-to-back games. Pau Gasol, a similar seven-foot center to Lopez, posted strong per-minute averages last night against the Bucks, and I like Lopez’ chances of getting more than the 20 minutes Pau got last night. You probably won’t feel good about it, but give Brook a look.
That’s it for Saturday. Good luck!
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