PrizePicks NBA Player Picks Today: Top Plays for October 31
Happy Halloween! We have a spooky small 3-game slate after an 11-game slate last night during Monday Night Football. While I’m sure most parents would love to have some NBA on at home to watch as they wait at home for trick-or-treaters, we have to deal with a haunting 3 games on PrizePicks. However, there are a surprising amount of NBA DFS PrizePicks prediction opportunities tonight, hopefully leading to some treats in our bank accounts. PrizePicks is running discounted promotions on specific players to celebrate Halloween throughout the day, so be sure to include those in your cards as well.
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NBA PrizePicks Predictions Today
Josh Okogie – More Than 20.5 Fantasy Points
The Suns will still be without Devin Booker and Bradley Beal tonight. While it’s Kevin Durant who benefits the most, Josh Okogie gets a significant minutes and usage upgrade in this situation. Additionally, his number for fantasy points on PrizePicks is way too low. RotoGrinders currently projects Okogie for 26.5 fantasy points, which is exactly the type of differential I like to target for a PrizePicks prediction. Okogie to surpass 20.5 fantasy points has the highest success rate in the RotoGrinders NBA Fantasy Pick’em Tool for PrizePicks at 73.56% on the entire slate.
He’s a strong NBA DFS option on all sites tonight and easily eclipsed this number in his first two games of the season before playing limited minutes as the Suns blew out the Jazz in their last game. The Suns get a great matchup in a pace-up spot against the Spurs, and Okogie should be heavily involved as long as this game stays close.
- Play: Okogie – More Than 20.5 Fantasy Points
Victor Wembanyama – More Than 16.5 Points
If the Spurs are on the slate, there’s a good chance I’m playing Wemby on my PrizePicks NBA DFS Pick’em card. I think he can surpass essentially any pick’em prediction you choose tonight, however, my favorite is his points total. Although RotoGrinders only projects Victor Wembanyama for 18.5 real-life points, he could easily exceed that total as well. He’s been able to get close to eclipsing his PrizePicks numbers for each game this season, while also dealing with foul trouble or a dreadful shooting performance from three-point range.
The beauty of this PrizePicks prediction is that Wembanyama is priced for his floor games, and he’s been able to his NBA DFS Pick’em numbers while playing poorly offensively. We haven’t gotten a chance to see anything close to a ceiling performance yet, and when we do, he’s going to absolutely smash.
- Play: Wembanyama – More Than 16.5 Points
Zach Collins – More Than 28.5 Fantasy Points
The other Spurs big in the lineup, Zach Collins has played really well from a fantasy points-scoring perspective to start the season. He’s projected to score 32 fantasy points tonight, according to the RotoGrinders projections, and has surpassed this number in all but one game this season, where he played limited minutes. Collins has been stuffing the stat sheet in every category so far this year. He scores, rebounds, assists, and piles up defensive stats, giving him a plethora of different ways to achieve his NBA DFS PrizePicks prediction.
Collins will likely be needed to play heavy minutes tonight matching up with Jusuf Nurkic on the other side and should be in for a big night as long as this one stays close and he can refrain from getting into foul trouble. From an individual matchup standpoint the spot bodes very well for Collins, as Nurkic isn’t the type of player to chase him out to the 3-point line where Collins often likes to hang out. This should be a smash spot for Zach Collins tonight.
- Play: Collins – More Than 28.5 Fantasy Points
Kawhi Leonard – More Than 6 Rebounds
The Clippers will be without Nicolas Batum, Marcus Morris, Robert Covington and KJ Martin tonight as they unleashed a blockbuster trade to acquire James Harden in the middle of the night. While Harden has been a distraction to teams in the past, they gave away peanuts compared to what his ceiling could be with this team. I don’t expect Harden or PJ Tucker, who was also included in the trade, to be available tonight, so the Clippers should be heavily undermanned tonight.
While most of the ancillary players who will benefit the most from a minutes perspective like Norman Powell, Bones Hyland and even Amir Coffey aren’t available to select for NBA DFS PrizePicks predictions, Kawhi Leonard should see a significant bump as well since basically every single person they traded plays the exact same position as he does. Kawhi’s averaging just under 6 rebounds a game to start the season, but should see that number rise now that the team is without an abundance of their rebounders. Keep your eyes on the Clippers players available throughout the day because although I like Kawhi Leonard tonight, there could be even more value opening up as the day goes on.
- Play: Leonard – More Than 6 Rebounds