3 NBA FanDuel Studs to Target on 11/15/18

James Harden, SG, Houston Rockets

Price: $11,700

The Houston Rockets are on the other side of that game against the Warriors, and they have been left with a really thin rotation recently.

They haven't had more than seven players see 20 minutes of playing time in any of their last four games, and in their last game only six played more than 15 minutes. The game before that saw them play only eight players total.

That's certainly not ideal from a real-basketball standpoint, but it does open up a ton of value in fantasy basketball.

James Harden has been forced into playing 36-plus minutes in each of those last four, averaging 37.7 per game.

Harden averages the third-most fantasy points per minute (1.48) of all players with at least 500 minutes since the beginning of last season, and combining some of the league's best efficiency with a consistently high minutes number puts him in a tremendous spot.

He's yet to have a real blow-up game this year, and that keeps his salary nice and reasonable. We've seen that his upside is as high as anyone's -- last year's 98.5-FanDuel-point game was the highest mark for any player in the last two seasons -- and this workload also gives him an elite floor.