Daily Fantasy NBA News and Injury Updates for FanDuel and DraftKings - 1/22/17 (Updated for main slate)

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

Ricky Rubio is out tonight against Denver.
Rubio will miss for a personal matter. Kris Dunn should draw the start, and could make for an interesting value play.

Emmanuel Mudiay is out against the Timberwolves.
As predicted, Denver is going to hold Mudiay out tonight after leaving last nights game with a sore lower back. Will Barton should continue to be a nice play, as well as Jamal Murray and Kenneth Faried (See below).

Patrick Patterson is out against Phoenix.
Patterson has missed 5 straight games already and will sit out another one. The good news for Toronto is Lucas Nogueira has passed concussion protocol and is good to go for tonight's game against the Suns.

The "Every Lineup" Guys

DeMar DeRozan
DeMar under performed Friday night against the Hornets, but he gets a nice match up today against the Phoenix Suns. Phoenix come in as a bottom ten defense against opposing shooting guards, and their top three pace factor will force Toronto to step up their own game presenting DeRozan with a few extra looks. There's value to be found in other places so I don't mind paying up for DeMar here.

Kenneth Faried
The Nuggets seem to like the chemistry between Faried and Nikola Jokic in the front court, so it seems he's going to remain in the starting five. He has scored in double digits in four of his last 5 games and seems to be locked in to minutes in the mid twenties to low thirties. The match up with Minnesota isn't ideal but on a 2 game main slate we can't let that deter us. Especially with Denver dealing with a lot of bites from the injury bug. It doesn't take a lot for Faried to hit value and he should be able to do so.

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