FanDuel NBA Daily: Fantasy basketball lineup for January 30
De’Aaron Fox is emerging as a franchise building block for the Sacramento Kings and a viable FanDuel NBA roster option during his rookie season.
Once Sacramento Kings guard De’Aaron Fox adds a reliable 3-point shot to his game, leaving him out of FanDuel NBA lineups is going to be a challenge.
Entering Sunday’s contest against the San Antonio Spurs, the 6’3″ rookie was connecting on 30.4 percent of his attempts from beyond the arc and has converted more than one shot from 3-point range just twice in his first 41 career appearances.
Fox logged the first points of the afternoon for Sacramento as he buried a shot from 25 feet out, set up by an assist from Bogdan Bogdanovic — the beginning of an exceptional scoring night.
For the rest of the game, anything from beyond the arc found its way through the net for Fox, including a pair of 3-pointers coming on consecutive possessions early in the fourth quarter.
By the time the final buzzer sounded, Fox had submitted the finest performance of his career, totaling 26 points while converting each of his six attempts from 3-point range and knocking down all four free throw attempts.
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The performance comes immediately following his exceptional game-winning dunk in Miami, part of a stretch that has made Fox a commodity in FanDuel NBA fantasy basketball leagues.
Over the past 13 games, Fox is averaging 14.1 points, 5.3 assists ,1.9 rebounds and 1.1 steals a night.
The exceptional leaping ability of Fox not only enables him to follow up missed shots from teammates with put-back dunks, he can also reject shots, as he swatted away four attempts against the Chicago Bulls.
The emergence of Fox is a necessity for Sacramento, as the team has six players scoring 10 or more points this season, but no player averaging 15 points a night.
Trade rumors surround George Hill, the starting point guard for the Kings on opening night, and if he is moved, the value of Fox in FanDuel NBA daily leagues will only increase.
Fox already leads the team in assists and with a suddenly potent long range shot, he appears poised to become the top scoring option for a franchise in desperate need of one.