The early NBA slate on Sunday 11/08 is a two-game card, PHI @ CHI and LAL @ DET, with a $50,000 cap on DraftKings classic. Lock is Sun 11/8 at 3:30 p.m. ET (12:30 p.m. PT).
Cade Cunningham (DET) sits at the top of our model's ranking at $9,400, with a ceiling of 83.1 and a DraftKings average of 47.3. Tyrese Maxey (PHI) is right behind him at $8,900, with a ceiling of 78.8 and an average of 44.2. Luka Doncic (LAL) carries the highest average on the slate at 66.9, but at $12,400 his ceiling is 70.8, and he carries a Q tag. Joel Embiid (PHI, $8,700) also carries a Q tag, and his ceiling is only 56.4.
The upside is in the mid-priced PHI forwards. Jaylen Brown ($7,900) has a ceiling of 84.4, the best on our sheet, and LeBron James ($7,800) is at 82.4. Both cost less than Maxey and Cunningham. Caleb Wilson (CHI) at $7,400 has a 37.2 average and a ceiling of 62.0, while Ausar Thompson (DET) at $6,000 offers a ceiling of 56.8 and a 30.1 average.
For salary relief, our model's lineup leans on bargains: Tre Jones at $4,200, Ziaire Williams at $4,200, Duncan Robinson at $5,300 and Dean Wade at $3,500. Those cheap pieces are what let the build afford stars at the other spots.
We don't have ownership data for this slate, so we can't say where the crowd will land.
Our model's top lineup uses $49,800 of the $50,000 cap: Cunningham at PG, Jones at SG, Robinson at SF, Wilson at PF, Walker Kessler ($8,000) at C, Williams at G, Wade at F, and James at UTIL.
Check the status tags before you lock, since Doncic and Embiid are both Q. The slate locks Sun 11/8 at 3:30 p.m. ET.
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