3 NBA FanDuel Studs to Target on 1/29/19

Nikola Vucevic, C, Orlando Magic

Price: $10,200

Stop me if you've heard this one before. Nikola Vucevic is playing in what projects to be a close game, meaning he should get the minutes to blow past the fantasy value implied by his salary tonight.

Vooch ranks eighth in the NBA with an average of 1.44 FanDuel points per minute on the year. Not getting minutes like the other studs, though, he sits only 13th in overall season-long average, at 45.1 FanDuel points per game.

He's averaging 31.2 minutes per game this year, but that doesn't tell the whole story. The Orlando Magic have played in a ton of blowouts this year. The average margin of victory in the 49 games Vucevic has played sits at 11.8 points. In the 20 games decided by more than that average, Vucevic averages only 28.5 minutes per game. In the other 29 games, he averages 33.1.

Tonight, the Magic are only 5.0-point underdogs against the Oklahoma City Thunder. If we look at only the games that finish within five points, Vooch's minutes jump further, up to 33.5 per game.

The Thunder are a tough matchup, certainly, but even if that causes a drop in efficiency, the increased minutes Vucevic stands to see tonight should make up for it.

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