Sunday's early DraftKings NBA slate is a compact two-game board: LAL @ UTA and IND @ BKN. The salary cap is $50,000, and the slate locks at 5:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. PT).
Luka Doncic of LAL is the headliner at $11,200. He carries a ceiling of 83.5 and a DraftKings average of 54.0, the loftiest numbers on the sheet by a wide margin. Tyrese Haliburton of IND is the next pillar at $8,300, with a ceiling of 59.0 and a DraftKings average of 42.5. Ace Bailey of UTA, at $5,300, offers a 61.5 ceiling and a 24.6 average, a strong mid-tier option.
The value plays come from UTA and IND. Brice Sensabaugh is only $3,500 but has a 59.9 ceiling and a 12.6 average. Kyle Filipowski of UTA costs $3,700 with a 48.5 ceiling, while Jalen Slawson of IND at $3,500 has a 49.0 ceiling. Isaiah Collier of UTA is $4,000 with a 42.0 ceiling, and Kobe Brown of IND is the cheapest of the group at $3,000 with a 41.5 ceiling. Several injury tags shape the board: Jusuf Nurkic and Trey Alexander of UTA are tagged OUT, as are T.J. McConnell and Ben Sheppard of IND, while Aaron Nesmith of IND carries a Q tag.
Ownership figures are not available for this slate, so we will not guess where the crowd lands.
Our model's top lineup uses $49,300 of the $50,000 cap. It starts with Doncic at PG for $11,200 and pairs Sensabaugh at SG for $3,500 with Slawson at SF for $3,500. Filipowski fills PF at $3,700, and Walker Kessler takes C at $7,400. Collier slots in at G for $4,000, Lauri Markkanen is at F for $7,700, and Haliburton rounds out the UTIL spot at $8,300.
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