The NBA’s Sunday card will be tipped off with a matinee between the Boston Celtics and New Orleans Pelicans and headlined by a Brooklyn Nets showdown against the Los Angeles Clippers. Let’s shop around for some value in Sunday’s prop market and focus on three NBA player props.
Sunday’s NBA player prop bet predictions
Odds via BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated at 3:30 p.m. ET.
Philadelphia 76ers SF Tobias Harris OVER 19.5 points (-115)
An ascending Toronto Raptors meet an elite Philadelphia 76ers, and while Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid deservingly get a bunch of credit for Philadelphia’s strong start this season, forward Tobias Harris is also playing at an All-Star caliber.
Harris is averaging a career-best 20.9 points per game on a career-high 57.6% effective field goal shooting (eFG%). He’s got a career-high 19.7 PER at the moment and has an above 60% true shooting percentage for the first time in his career.
In his five games vs. the Raptors since joining the Sixers, Harris is averaging 22.8 points per game with 6.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game. And Toronto is allowing the 10th-most points per game (23.5 PPG) to opposing power forwards on the 24th-ranked shooting percentages from the field and 3-point land as well.
TAKE T. HARRIS OVER 19.5 POINTS (-115) for 1.50 units.
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Minnesota Timberwolves SF Anthony Edwards UNDER 1.5 made 3-pointers (+145)
The Minnesota Timberwolves are in the Big Apple Sunday for a game with the New York Knicks and No. 1 overall pick Timberwolves wing Anthony Edwards is getting a ton of buzz after his earth-shattering dunk against the Raptors Friday.
And while Edwards is super impressive athletically, his jumper is still a work in progress. Edwards’ 3-point percentage has fallen to 26.9% this month, and he has hit less than two 3-pointers in six of his 11 games in February.
More importantly, the Knicks have the lowest-scoring defense in the NBA, the best 3-point defense, and hold opposing small forwards to the 2nd-lowest 3-point percentage.
BET 1 unit on TWolves’ A. Edwards UNDER 1.5 made threes (+145).
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Los Angeles Clippers PG Patrick Beverley OVER 1.5 steals & rebounds (+140)
First of all, I love getting 1.4 times ROI in this spot considering Clippers PG Patrick Beverley is a notorious defensive pest, whose perimeter defense is a key for Los Angeles tonight.
Beverley has familiarity guarding both James Harden and Kyrie Irving; he is averaging 2.4 steals & blocks per game in his five career games against Harden and 2.1 steals & blocks in seven career games vs. Kyrie.
Los Angeles plays host to Brooklyn for the second meeting of the season, and this is a nationally televised game that pits the Nets’ All-NBA backcourt against the Clippers’ elite perimeter defenders.
A deciding factor in this game figures to be Beverley’s on-ball defense vs. Harden and Irving and the chip on Pat Bev’s shoulder for being an overlooked point guard usually motivates him.
TAKE P. Beverley OVER 1.5 steals & blocks (+140) for a half-unit.
Also see: Nets at Clippers odds, picks and prediction
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- Bet Slippin’ Podcast
- Sixers forward Tobias Harris sees his chemistry with Joel Embiid growing (Sixers Wire)
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