 What's going on? I am Greg Sosby and joined today by Ricky Sanders of dailyrotor.com with you to break down tonight's NBA Slate. What's happening Ricky? Nothing. Happy Martin Luther King Day to everyone and you're going to have to be ready early today. 11 games on this fan duel main slate and they start at 5 p.m. So do your research early today and get ready for what should be an exciting night of basketball. Absolutely. It's going to be a really fun night of basketball. So let's start by building a lineup and win some money and we begin well with some of our stars and that takes us to Portland where Damien Lillard is playing without CJ McCollum tonight, which means the price doesn't matter. Dave's got to get in there. Exactly. I think he's a lock button candidate for tonight and I'm not going to say that maybe about anyone else honestly in this order or in this video rather because Lillard doesn't have CJ McCollum tonight and when you take him out of rotation, this is the Damien Lillard show. Basically we're talking he's projecting for over a 32% usage rate on Daily Roto over a 38% assist rate. So again, just some big numbers from him and that's before we even talk about the matchup against this Golden State team that ranks 29th in defensive efficiency against opposing point guards. Damien Lillard one of the safest bets for minutes. He habitually plays over 37 minutes per game. So you have those heavy rates for a guy that doesn't leave the court and he's just a monster monster play tonight. Almost a no-brainer with Damien Lillard. The rates are all going to increase. The usage is going to be out of control. You have to get Damien Lillard into your lineup tonight. Otherwise, you're probably going to lose. But what star do you pair with Damien Lillard? We have a couple more we wanted to bring up and that takes us to LeBron James and this is an interesting one, Ricky, because Anthony Davis is back for the Lakers, which means the usage should go down for the King. You're still comfortable with him. How come? Yeah, it's because you see big minutes from LeBron James in competitive games. So obviously the usage rate isn't quite where it was with the, you know, Anthony Davis projected out. He's about a 35.5% usage rate player with Davis off the floor that goes down to about 31.5% with him. But against Boston with looks like everyone active, Kemba Walker and Jaylen Brown, it was a two point spread before the Anthony Davis news. Now I think we're talking close to a pick them, which means you have a battle between two pretty good teams. And I should note that Boston is susceptible to both small forwards and power forwards, even though they're a good defense. And you have LeBron James potentially playing into the high 30s of minutes for a guy with regardless of Davis on or off the floor, a 50 plus percent assist rate. So competitive game environments are always really interesting for superstars because instead of their normal minutes, you get those extended by one or two. And these are high efficiency players like LeBron James. That has just said, it's LeBron James. He's going to be awesome, but that's fine. All these players are awesome LeBron James. It doesn't matter if Anthony Davis is in there or not. The other stats will go up while maybe the scoring will go down a little bit. LeBron James fine option tonight over on FanDuel. All right. Moving on, we get to one more stud to chat about. And it's the Andre Aten who's back in the stud category after what he has done over the last week since returning to the starting lineup for the Phoenix Suns. Why do you like Aten over all the other center choices tonight? It's because the Suns are apparently committed to him once again. I mean, since he's moved into this starting lineup, 34, 48 and 35, 49 in terms of court time in two games. He is a guy who has not seen the bench much. It looks like Aaron Baines is going to be iffy tonight, so we could even see those minutes get higher. And during those two starts, we're seeing just massive numbers from Deandre, 26 points per game, 13 rebounds per game, two assists per game, over 54 FanDuel fantasy points per game. The matchup does not jump off the page. I mean, the Spurs League average defense in terms of pace and overall defensive efficiency should be noted 20 second in defensive efficiency against the opposing Senators. And we are projecting Aten for basically, you know, point one fantasy points fewer than Carl Anthony Towns tonight, two fewer than Hassan Whiteside, and he's priced at 8K and they're much more expensive. So he's not exactly cheap, but we don't care tonight with just how much he's been playing and how productive he has been paying the price to get Deandre Aten in there. According to Ricky Sanders, it is worth it. Even with all those choices on the slate, Deandre Aten Center worth starting tonight. But in order to get all of these superstars in there, you need to have some value. So let's talk about that now, Ricky. And we started with the Portland travel lasers and Damien Lillard. So it makes sense to start our values here as well. Without CJ McCollum, somebody's going to step up. It's going to be Anthony Simons. And if you thought the NBA was done with Anthony's after Hardaway, you are sadly mistaken because Simons is a legitimate thing without CJ McCollum in rotation. Basically, he's being forced into the high 30s of minutes and the team only had eight players last game. It looks like they're going to have nine tonight with the next guy being Moses Brown, who's just a true backup center. So I don't think that's going to affect the minutes of the guards. And you talk about a value, he's 200 over the bare minimum, despite the fact that he's playing the off guard in this Portland offense. And he'll be playing point guard kind of sporadically with Damien Lillard off the floor. And we already mentioned just how bad this Golden State team is against point guard. So I think you take that value all the way to the bank. Portland clearly a team that's going to need these other guards to step up. And Simons is basically free. He cost you nothing. And you know he's going to play all these extra minutes tonight without CJ McCollum. It's crazy to not have Simons in your lineup. It's crazy that he's this cheap on a fan duel. Don't make a mistake. Get Simons and Lillard in your lineups tonight. Let's move on away from Anthony Simons and into Marcus Morris with the New York Knicks. Morris has been out there. He's been effective. Hell, he's back. Yeah. And you look at this line for the New York Knicks, it makes you kind of scratch your head. They're being projected to score about eight points above their seasonal average. And there's no RJ Barrett tonight. So you just think to yourself, where is this offense going to come from? It's going to come from Julius Randall. And it's going to come from Marcus Morris, who's priced at just $5,200 since returning from this neck injury. Marcus Morris has attempted 17 plus shots in four of five games. His 24.7 usage rate this month would be a season high if it holds. And he's averaging over 35 fan duel fantasy points per month, which also, or per game this month, which will also be a season high. So he's in the midst of his best month of the season. And now you get this massive total for the Knicks. I think Marcus Morris is a great play. And again, he's not that expensive, so he helps you fit some of the superstars we talked about. Yeah, with that RJ Barrett, someone's got to pick up the pace. And according to what you said, the numbers are what they are. The Knicks are going to score even more than they normally do. Who's going to score? What's going to be Marcus Morris? Get Morris into your lineups here tonight. One final value player to get to, Ricky, and that takes us to Marvin Bagley, who has seen a minute's uptake as of Lee. No Rashawn Holmes in the lineup. And Bagley's getting all the time that he can handle right now for the Sacramento Kings. You believe that continues tonight. I do. I think this 30 plus minutes is just solidified as long as there's Rashawn Holmes and he can stay out of foul trouble. We have a reasonably competitive game expected. We're talking like six and a half, seven points depending where you're looking here. And Marvin Bagley is a 1.07 fan duel fantasy point per minute producer. I mean, this is not a guy who is unproductive when on the court. So you think about a 30 minute allotment for him just in an average environment. Even if, you know, we toned down the efficiency here because of this individual matchup against Bam out of bio, one fantasy point per minute for over 30 minutes is 30 fantasy points, which is great value at 5100. I think he's clearly has the upside of like a $7,075 player, which is not being taken into consideration here. And I think the 30 minutes could just be low on him. They could start playing him slightly more until Rashawn Holmes is back. This is a player who just came back from injury himself. So I think there's a lot of upside here and a stable floor despite the, you know, really a tough matchup, one that we usually don't recommend forwards and centers against, which is the Miami Heat. Not exactly a spot we go to often, but in this matchup, second day of a back to back for the Heat and Bagley playing as many minutes as well as he is, it's worth trying to go down that way. And maybe catching people off guard in an effort to win some money tonight. That's going to do it for us here on the FanDuel Hurryup. Ricky, I appreciate the time. Good luck tonight. Yes, good luck to you as well. And thanks for having me. All right, we appreciate the time tomorrow. We'll be back with another brand new edition of the Hurryup. We hope to see you there for Ricky Sanders. I'm Greg Sussman. Have a great night. Enjoy the games and we'll see you back here tomorrow.