Wednesday night's DraftKings classic slate is a two-game board: GSW @ HOU and OKC @ POR. The salary cap is $50,000, and the slate locks at 9:30 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. PT).
Alperen Sengun (HOU) is the headliner. At $9,000, he carries a ceiling of 88.5 and a DraftKings average of 48.9, the highest ceiling on the board by a wide margin. Stephen Curry (GSW) at $7,700 is the other big name, with a ceiling of 63.6 and an average of 45.9. Kevin Durant (HOU) at $7,200 has a ceiling of 54.7, and Jabari Smith Jr. (HOU) at $6,400 sits at 62.7, which is strong for the price.
The value plays lean on the Warriors and one Thunder big. Yaxel Lendeborg (GSW) costs $6,900 and shows a ceiling of 64.7, the second-highest among our top plays. Aday Mara (OKC) at $5,100 carries a ceiling of 64.0, a big number for a center at that salary. Charles Bassey (GSW) at $3,800 has a ceiling of 42.4, which helps open up salary elsewhere. Brandin Podziemski (GSW) at $6,300 rounds out the group with a ceiling of 47.0.
Ownership figures are not available for this slate, so we will not guess where the crowd lands. DraftKings status tags are worth checking before lock. Jimmy Butler (GSW), Gary Payton II (GSW), Brandon Williams (GSW), Chet Holmgren (OKC), Jaylin Williams (OKC), Ja Morant (POR) and Steven Adams (HOU) all carry an OUT tag, and Will Richard (GSW) is tagged Q.
Our model's top lineup uses $49,700 of the $50,000 cap. It runs Curry at PG ($7,700), Reed Sheppard at SG ($4,700), Durant at SF ($7,200), Lendeborg at PF ($6,900) and Sengun at C ($9,000). Fred VanVleet fills G ($5,800), Georges Niang takes F ($4,000) and Robert Williams is the UTIL ($4,400).
Lineups lock Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. ET.
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