3 NBA FanDuel Studs to Target on 12/27/17

DeMarcus Cousins, C, New Orleans Pelicans

Price: $11,400

It's amazing, but DeMarcus Cousins is somehow the fourth-most expensive player on tonight's slate. Whether that's a product of the handful of fantasy monsters taking the floor on the same night or his recent downtick in production, it's just hard to believe that a guy averaging 51.8 FanDuel points per game has three players priced ahead of him. Time to take advantage.

Boogie is coming into Wednesday's game having posted just 16 points, 8 assists and 7 rebounds (46.4 FanDuel points) in his last game on December 23rd. For 75% of the NBA's players, that's their best game of the year. But we're used to seeing 50-plus FanDuel points, 25 points and double-doubles from the Pelicans' star big man. Only once in his last five games has he checked all three of those boxes.

Cousins is playing a career-high 35.2 minutes a game in 2017. It's certainly possible that he was starting to get a little worn down 33 games in, but after more than three days off he should be ready to get back to form -- and who better to do that against than the Brooklyn Nets.

This season, Brooklyn has given up the fourth-most FanDuel points per game (52.9) to opposing centers. Their 3.4 assists and 1.5 steals against are also in the top eight and all but scream Boogieeee!

On a night filled with elite fantasy talent, Cousins is our top play on the entire 10-game slate.