Wednesday's NBA showdown on DraftKings is a single game, ORL @ TOR, and it locks at 7:30 p.m. ET (4:30 p.m. PT). The captain slot scores 1.5x points at 1.5x salary, and the cap is $50,000.
Start at the top. Scottie Barnes (TOR) is $9,600 in the UTIL slot with a ceiling of 58.2 and a DraftKings average of 35.7, the highest ceiling on our model's board. RJ Barrett (TOR) is $8,600 with a 44.9 ceiling and a 32.9 average. On the Orlando side, Desmond Bane is $8,000 with a 39.9 ceiling, and Anthony Black is $7,200 with a 38.4 ceiling and a 34.7 average.
The value plays sit at the bottom of the salary scale. Malachi Smith (TOR) costs $1,000 with a 30.8 ceiling, a big number for the price, though his DraftKings average is only 4.7. Colin Castleton (ORL) is also $1,000, with a 19.9 ceiling. Kyle Anderson (TOR) is $2,400 with a 23.5 ceiling, and Collin Murray-Boyles (TOR) is $6,600 with a 34.3 ceiling.
Several names carry an OUT tag from DraftKings. For ORL, that covers Paolo Banchero, Jalen Suggs, Noah Penda, Jonathan Isaac and Izaiyah Nelson. For TOR, it covers Kawhi Leonard and Nate Bittle. The sheet gives no ownership figures for this slate, so we won't guess where the crowd is headed.
Our model's top lineup uses the full $50,000 and puts Barnes in the captain slot at $14,400. Around him are Bane at $8,000, Murray-Boyles at $6,600, Ja'Kobe Walter at $5,200, Barrett at $8,600 and Black at $7,200. It leans on TOR's top two at the highest salaries and mixes in ORL's Bane and Black.
Lineups lock at 7:30 p.m. ET, so get your entries in before then.
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