Jordan Bell Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections

Bell's tenure in Houston was short-lived as the Rockets have flipped the big man to the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Bruno Caboclo, who has been sidelined for the Grizzlies last eight games with a sore left knee. Bell is likely to only be a depth piece for a deep Grizzlies frontcourt, but several Rockets beat writers are speculating that Caboclo could step into Houston's backup "center" role and siphon minutes away from Thabo Sefolosha and Isaiah Hartenstein once the trade is finalized in coming day or two.

Jordan Bell will start at Center for the Warriors tonight, pairing him up with Marc Gasol, but more importantly meaning DeMarcus Cousins is NOT starting, adding to the increasing murkiness of his viability as a DFS play for tonight's game. Kevon Looney will maintain his familiar bench role, although it's unclear how well and Cousins will fare when used on the floor at the same time.

Jordan Bell getting the start makes him a more attractive option due to minutes certainty, and that he doesn't need to score a whole lot or have the ball in his hands in order to be effective. An energized Bell could make for a very good value play on this slate, and also leaves Kevon Looney in his comfortable and predictable bench role, where he too remains an interesting option for this depleted Warriors squad.

Green was previously ruled out and won’t play in Monday’s matchup against the Indiana Pacers due to rest purposes, while Jonas Jerebko is still away from the team tending to a personal matter. When Green was sidelined for a stretch of games earlier in the season, head coach Steve Kerr cycled through a number of players to replace him in the starting lineup, and he's opted to give Jordan Bell a shot as a spot starter despite him totaling just 11 minutes and accruing three DNP-CDs in the Warriors last five games. However, DeMarcus Cousins has been roughly limited to about 24 minutes over the last two games, so regardless of starting lineup, Kevon Looney should be in line for a significant bump in minutes. Since Green is more of a distributor than a scorer on offense, his absence doesn’t really open up any additional usage for the likes of Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, or Klay Thompson, and Cousins has only recorded 7.6 minutes in his first four games with Green and Jerebko off the court.

The Warriors are without Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and Shaun Livingston for Saturday's matchup against the Brooklyn Nets due to their respective injuries. In their absences, Quinn Cook and Jonas Jerebko will enter the starting lineup, which will send Jordan Bel back to the bench to resume a reserve role following a serviceable fantasy performance in 21 minutes in his spot start. There isn't much of a sample size with both Curry and Green off the court together this season, but in that limited time, both Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant own usage rates north of 41.0% and see a substantial boost in their per minute production. While those rates aren't sustainable, they will obviously be elite options for all formats on tonight's slate.