Daily Fantasy NBA News and Injury Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 12/18/16

Welcome to the daily updates and injury news article. We'll try and update it right up to line-up locks with as much information as comes across our desks. Let's get to it!

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What We Know

Jerryd Bayless is out for the season.
Bayless had surgery on his left wrist and will miss the remainder of the season. This will most likely move Sergio Rodriguez to the Sixers starting 5 with a boost in minutes.

What We're Waiting to Know

Whats going on in New Orleans?
This is the big one. Anthony Davis, Solomon Hill, and Dante Cunningham are all questionable for the last game of the night and this one could seriously impact the way we construct all of our lineups. Tim Frazier is also listed as probable for this one. Now the good news is the 7:00 start is only an hour after lock, so hopefully we get some idea of how things will shake out, otherwise We're throwing darts in the dark.

Tyler Johnson and Wayne Ellington are questionable.
Johnson and Ellington are questionable against the Celtics tonight. With Dion Waiters still out, if these two should sit, Goran Dragic becomes a fantastic play in any format as he sees a 4% bump in usage this season when those three are out.

The "Every Lineup" Guys

Kawhi Leonard
Should the aforementioned situation in New Orleans go the way of key players such as Anthony Davis missing the game, then this may be more suited as a tournament play. If we know the Pelicans are full strength, Davis especially, then this will be a much more competitive contest and Kawhi should have no problem getting his full compliment of minutes and putting up a 40burger with ease.

Joel Embiid
They say in Philly to "Trust the process" and I have no problem doing just that. I honestly consider Joel's minute restriction to be a blessing to DFS players. It's because of said restriction his price stays so low, but what you get for that price is a player capable of putting up numbers of a player priced $2k more. I get excited thinking of the things we're going to see from this young talent once the minutes restriction is fully relieved and we get to watch Embiid run for the boards a full game. In the meantime, keep locking him in to your lineups while the price is still a bargain.

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