5 NBA FanDuel Value Plays for 12/20/17

Patty Mills, PG, San Antonio Spurs

FanDuel Price: $3,700
Projected FanDuel Points: 18.5
Projected FanDuel Value: 5.01

Point guard is full of value tonight. Patty Mills heads west to face his old team, the Portland Trail Blazers, and Tony Parker will be sitting tonight on the first of a back-to-back, so Mills and Dejounte Murray should see a boost in run. The Blazers have, uncharacteristically, been one of the top-10 teams against point guards this season, but Mills has always been more efficient against them than most other teams he faces. For his career, Mills averages a run-of-the-mill 0.8 FanDuel points per minute. Against Portland, that jumps to 0.89. When given minutes against them, he tends to follow through with a decent outing.

The Vegas line is set at only 199, but a low total is nothing new for San Antonio: the Spurs play at the second-slowest pace in the league. At $3,700, Mills needs only to hit 18.5 points to hit our target five-times value for cash games. That's exactly what we project him to score.