DraftKings Price: $7400

Nurk is love. Nurk is life. Nurk is one of the main reasons the Portland Trail Blazers are sitting in first place in the Western Conference, like all of us foresaw.

Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic has been one of the most consistent players in the NBA this side of Tobias Harris (nobody does it better). He's put up at least 32 DraftKings points in all but three games this season, two of which came back in October. He hasn't scored below 28.75 DraftKings points this month and has topped 40 four times, including three times in his past four games.

He's averaging a career-high 15.4 points and 10.9 boards per game. One of the most dangerous improvements in his game from an opponent's perspective is his free-throw shooting. He's averaging 80.0% from the line. His best heading into this season was 66.0%. That's obviously dangerous, because fouling him isn't an automatic option now when you're trying to limit scoring damage from C.J. and Dame.

We have him projected for 32.5 DraftKings points tonight with upside of 54.0 points.

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