3 NBA FanDuel Studs to Target on 1/14/19

Anthony Davis, PF, New Orleans Pelicans

Price: $12,700

Tonight's matchup between the New Orleans Pelicans and Los Angeles Clippers features two teams that rank both bottom-10 in defensive rating and top-10 in pace, and it's no surprise that it has the highest over/under (239.0) on the slate.

The Clips allow top-10 marks in all of points, rebounds, steals and blocks per game to their opponents, and they don't pose much of a threat to slow Anthony Davis down.

I say slow him down instead of shut him down because the latter is something that has proven nigh impossible this season. Excluding an injury-shortened outing in early December, Davis has been held under 47.7 FanDuel points only twice in 37 games this year. He's averaging 62.5 per game and has topped 60 in 63% of his games. For context, nobody else has topped 60 in more than 38%, and only three other players have even topped 50 as often as Davis has hit 60.

Yes, $12,700 is a steep price tag, but he's in a tier of his own as far as production goes, so getting him as the second-highest priced player on the slate in a plus matchup makes him even easier to like than usual.