What It Means:

Dwight Howard (back) has been ruled out, opening up a spot in the starting lineup for Bryant. He's averaging just 5.3 minutes in six games, so Ian Mahinmi and Jason Smith could also see a decent amount of minutes off the bench.

Bryant is the top-rated DFS value play on numberFire's Tuesday projections, as our models expect him to score 19.7 FanDuel points at a cost of only $3,500.