We’re teed up for an eight-game slate Wednesday night, and there are some big-name injuries worth monitoring. However, with 16 teams in action, we still have plenty of options across the salary scale, including some particularly welcoming matchups given some of the most vulnerable defensive teams in the league will be taking the floor.
As customary, we’ll highlight multiple advantageous positional matchups to exploit at each position for your Yahoo Fantasy lineups, as well as a good trio of candidates that may be best to steer clear of due to a combination of circumstances/salary.
Guards
Donovan Mitchell, CLE at MIL ($46): With Luka Doncic questionable due to lower back tightness, Mitchell serves as a safer and certainly much more affordable alternative than the Mavericks star. Mitchell also happens to have plenty of upside in his own right and is set for a premium matchup against a Bucks team he just lit up for 55.5 Yahoo points three games ago. Mitchell also has tallies of 73.4, 52.1 and 57.1 within his last five games, so there’s no questioning the ceiling he carries is befitting of a higher-salaried player. Finally, the fact the Bucks are allowing a co-NBA-high 31.5 offensive efficiency rating to point guards and the third-most Yahoo points to the position in the last 15 games (53.9) only serves to brighten Mitchell’s prospects.
Jaden Ivey, DET vs. CHA ($26): Ivey has been quite the revelation this season, particularly following Cade Cunningham’s seven-game absence due to a knee injury. While that absence is due to come to an end Wednesday, Ivey remains very much in play against a Hornets backcourt that just traded away Terry Rozier and should therefore have less resistance to offer than usual on the defensive end. Ivey’s salary remains reasonable for his ceiling, considering he’s scored 34.2 to 46.8 Yahoo points in six of his last seven games, and he also put up 27.4 over just 23 minutes against Charlotte back in the second game of the campaign.
ALSO CONSIDER: Anthony Edwards, MIN at WAS ($40)
Guard to Avoid
Malcolm Brogdon, POR at HOU ($27): Brogdon has certainly provided some very useful DFS tallies of late,…
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