Fantasy basketball picks and betting tips for Friday's NBA slate - ESPN

Friday night means another night of Emirates NBA Cup action, with the teams playing on fancy neon courts and every point counting toward the rankings, meaning fewer players sitting at the end of blowouts. Good times and opportunities to be had by all.

We've got eight games on the schedule for tonight and, as always, there is some fun action.

The Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee Bucks lock horns in a rematch of last season's In-Season Tournament semifinals. And we potentially get another game from Joel Embiid after he dropped 35 and started looking more like himself in his last outing — if he doesn't miss the game due to left knee injury management.

The penultimate game of the night has the Dallas Mavericks and Denver Nuggets (10 p.m. ET on ESPN) facing off, potentially without either Luka Doncic (out, wrist) or Nikola Jokic (questionable, personal).

As always, let's dig further into these and other storylines to find some fantasy hoops streamers and betting angles of interest in tonight's slate.

Kelly Oubre Jr., Philadelphia 76ers (available in 70.3% of ESPN leagues)

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Paul George reinjured his left knee on Wednesday and is expected to miss at least the next two games. This likely vaults Oubre back into the starting spot and, more importantly, the role he played for the 76ers before George made his season debut. In those first five games of the season, Oubre averaged 18.0 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 2.0 3PG and 1.2 SPG in 33.0 MPG. George also missed the game on November 13, and