Wednesday's DraftKings classic slate is a turbo with three games: IND @ MEM, UTA @ NOP and CLE @ OKC. The salary cap is $50,000, and the slate locks at 8:00 p.m. ET (5:00 p.m. PT).
At the top of our model's ranking, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of OKC is the priciest option at $10,300. His ceiling of 75.1 is the highest on the board, and his DraftKings average of 47.1 backs it up. Cameron Boozer of MEM is the other premium name at $8,000, with a 68.1 ceiling and a 42.5 average. Jeremiah Fears of NOP sits in the middle of the pricing at $6,600, with a 57.8 ceiling and a 27.2 average.
The value end is where the slate gets interesting. Kyle Filipowski of UTA costs just $4,400, yet our model gives him a 57.7 ceiling, nearly matching Fears at a much lower price. His DraftKings average is only 5.3, so this is a ceiling play more than a floor play. Brice Sensabaugh of UTA is $3,900 with a 54.5 ceiling and a 13.9 average. Mo Bamba of UTA at $3,400 carries a 46.1 ceiling, while IND's Jalen Slawson at $3,400 reaches 47.8 and Kobe Brown at $3,200 reaches 38.8. Several of these names come with notable absences around them: Tyrese Haliburton (IND), Jaren Jackson Jr. (UTA) and Jusuf Nurkic (UTA) all carry OUT tags, and Obi Toppin (IND) is tagged Q.
Ownership figures are not available for this slate, so we can't say where the crowd will land.
Our model's top lineup uses the full $50,000. It starts with Ty Jerome at PG for $8,500 and Cedric Coward at SG for $6,500, then adds Alex Caruso at SF for $4,600 and Pascal Siakam at PF for $8,200. Isaiah Hartenstein fills C at $6,300, Meleek Thomas takes the G spot at $3,800, and Isaiah Stewart sits at UTIL for $4,100. Boozer anchors the F slot at $8,000.
Lock your lineups before 8:00 p.m. ET.
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