Wednesday's NBA showdown is a one-game slate, ORL @ UTA, with a $50,000 salary cap and a captain slot that scores 1.5x points at 1.5x salary. Lock is 9:00 p.m. ET (6:00 p.m. PT).
The sheet gives ceilings and DraftKings averages rather than point projections, so those are the numbers to lean on. Our model ranks Darryn Peterson of UTA first at $8,200, with a ceiling of 59.8 against a DraftKings average of 29.7. Anthony Black of ORL is next at $9,200, with a ceiling of 56.1 and an average of 35.4. Wendell Carter Jr. adds a 46.5 ceiling at $8,000, and Franz Wagner carries the highest salary on the board at $11,000, with a 46.4 ceiling and a 43.6 average, the strongest floor of the group.
Several players are tagged OUT by DraftKings: Paolo Banchero, Jalen Suggs, Tristan da Silva and Noah Penda for ORL, and Keyonte George, Lauri Markkanen, Jaren Jackson Jr. and Jusuf Nurkic for UTA. That thins both rotations and explains why the pricing sits where it does.
The value plays sit lower on the board. Josh Okogie of UTA costs just $4,000 with a 30.8 ceiling, which frees up cap room for the top-end names. Jase Richardson of ORL at $5,400 has a 35.3 ceiling and a 14.9 average. Jamal Cain of ORL at $6,200 carries a 45.8 ceiling against a 12.6 average, so his upside is much larger than his typical output. Ace Bailey of UTA, at $7,800 with a 38.9 ceiling, sits in the middle.
The sheet gives no ownership figures, so we can't say where the crowd will land.
Our model's top lineup spends $49,900 of the $50,000 cap. It puts Peterson in the captain slot at $12,300, then adds Carter Jr. at $8,000, Richardson at $5,400, Black at $9,200, Wagner at $11,000 and Okogie at $4,000 in the UTIL spots. Lock is Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. ET.
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