The lineup was in flux until the news that Lebron James would miss the game.  I then wanted to make a lineup with K. Irving and J. Butler.  Here is the lineup.

K. Irving;  Without K. Love and L. James, Irving will have huge usage.  He also should get a ton of minutes.  

J. Butler;  With Lebron our I felt much better about the game staying close.  I wanted to use Butler to correlate with Irving.  

D. Valentine;  This is likely my riskiest play, but at $3000, I felt the risk was worth it.  He played well last night vs Phoenix, and is likely in the rotation at this point.  

R. Covington;  It was between Covington and Saric in the spot.  I went with Covington for two reasons.  First, he is $500 cheaper.  Second, with the thee point bonus on DK, I thought Covington had a greater profit potential then Saric.  I got my Saric exposure on FD.

H. Whiteside;  I liked his match up against Indiana.  His price at $8000 left room for plenty of upside.  

D. Schroeder;  I felt he had a good match up against Orlando and E. Peyton.  When I got the news he wasn’t starting I could have switched, perhaps to Peyton, but I decided to stick with Schroeder, thinking he would still get decent minutes.

A. Iguodala;  This was the last spot I filled on my roster.  I liked the rest of the roster, so with $3900 left I thought he was the best option.  With Durant out, and the game being the highest predicted total of the night, some cheap exposure wasn’t a bad idea.

T. Johnson;  I liked the value at $5100.  Despite the return of the healthy players on the Heat, Johnson was still getting his run and taking lots of shots.  

Result:  298 (-$8)

It was a high scoring night.  Johnson was the lone snowflake in my lineup, as everyone else met or exceeded value (5x) and had the fire symbol.  I didn’t have Peyton on my roster or exposure to the Minnesota / Houston game.  Once I decided to make the Butler / Irving correlation the key feature in my lineup, to go along with Whiteside, the rest of the roster fell into place pretty easily.