Thunder Dan's Best Bets

Thunder Dan's Best Bets

NBA Daily Dose: Friday, Dec 23

Twas the Night Before...

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Dan Palyo
Dec 23, 2022
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Man, it’s f***cking cold here in Pennsylvania, but the NBA action is about to heat up tonight with a massive slate and I have been doing some deep dives all day to try to find all the best angles for bets, so I am pumped.

I wanted to go back to the full layout for the dose today, so take advantage of my models for DFS and betting if you use them daily. And if there’s something else you’d like to see daily in the dose, let me know - I am always open to suggestions!

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DFS MODEL

Washington-Sacto and Charlotte-LA are both worthy “late-night hammers”, but don’t sleep on the Portland-Denver game as it went to OT last time these teams met and despite the lack of pace, it has some really great offensive players in good matchups.

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LeBron James - $10900

LBJ or Jokic are the top pay-ups tonight, and I like James more as I want to play a bunch of other centers for less. LBJ without AD against Charlotte - he should push for 60+ DK points again.

Thomas Bryant - 6100

The price is still slowly increasing on Bryant, but I am going to continue to keep riding him here in a smash spot against the Charlotte frontcourt.

Coby White -$4000

No Caruso tonight, so White and Dosunmu should handle all the PG duties for Chicago. White gets more usage with the second unit and is one the better value guards on the slate tonight.

Favorite studs to target over 8k

Nikola Jokic

LeBron James

Damian Lillard

Julius Randle

Bam Adebayo

Chris Paul

CJ McCollum (questionable)

Sample Lineup (current cash build)

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