Sunday's DraftKings turbo slate is a two-game NBA card, BKN @ DAL and BOS @ MIL, with a $50,000 salary cap. Lock is Sun 11/8 at 7:30 p.m. ET (4:30 p.m. PT), so there is no long runway for late changes.
At the top, our model's ranking points to Cooper Flagg (DAL) at $10,100, with a ceiling of 78.6 and a DraftKings average of 43.0. That ceiling is the highest on the board. Jayson Tatum (BOS) costs $10,000 with a ceiling of 59.9 and a DraftKings average of 45.1, the best average among the top plays. Kyrie Irving (DAL) at $7,800 and Paul George (BOS) at $7,300 round out the mid-priced options, with ceilings of 54.4 and 47.1.
The value end is where this slate gets interesting. Jericho Sims (MIL) is $3,000 with a ceiling of 44.6, though his DraftKings average is only 3.2, so this is a pure upside bet. AJ Green (MIL) at $3,600 carries a 41.1 ceiling and a 15.2 average. Danny Wolf (BKN) is also $3,000, with a 38.5 ceiling and a 23.3 average, the sturdiest of the cheap group. Josh Minott (BKN) at $3,000 has a 29.2 ceiling. Worth knowing before you build: Mitchell Robinson (BOS) and Grant Nelson (BKN) carry Q tags, while Egor Demin, Mikel Brown Jr., Sergio de Larrea, Dereck Lively II, Gary Trent Jr. and Tarik Biberovic are tagged OUT.
The sheet gives no ownership figures, so we can't say where the crowd is headed.
Our model's top lineup uses $49,800 of the $50,000 cap. It runs Tyler Herro at PG for $6,700, Brayden Burries at SG for $4,300, Tatum at SF for $10,000, George at PF for $7,300, Wolf at C for $3,000, Baylor Scheierman at G for $3,800, Michael Porter Jr. at F for $7,200 and Julius Randle at UTIL for $7,500.
Lineups lock Sun 11/8 at 7:30 p.m. ET.
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