The NBA’s Easter basket is stuffed with seven games, several of which feature teams jostling for playoff positioning as the regular season boils down. Below, we’ll highlight Sunday’s top NBA player prop predictions.
The battle of Los Angeles basketball has lessened since the Lakers will be without All-Stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis but still, the Lakers play a Clippers team with both their All-Stars in SF Kawhi Leonard and SG Paul George in the afternoon.
The up-and-down Boston Celtics, currently eighth in the East, host a banged-up Charlotte Hornets team 1.5 games in front of them in the standings and in the 4-seed.
We get the second meeting this season between Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors and Trae Young’s Atlanta Hawks as the primetime main event.
Sunday’s NBA player prop bet predictions
Odds via BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated at 4:30 p.m. ET.
Memphis Grizzlies PG Ja Morant UNDER 19.5 points (-115)
The Memphis Grizzlies are in the City of Brotherly Love to play the host Philadelphia 76ers Sunday.
Grizzlies-76ers pits two of the most talented young point guards in the NBA in Morant and Sixers All-Star PG Ben Simmons.
Morant’s scoring production has been inconsistent since mid-March. He is averaging 18.1 points per game on 42.5% shooting (25.6% from 3-point range) over his past 11 games and Morant has scored more than 19.5 points just three times in that span.
Simmons and Morant have played each other only twice, but Morant is averaging 16 points on 42.3% shooting with no made threes in those games.
Furthermore, Philly has the second-best defensive field-goal percentage vs. opposing point guards and the fifth-best defensive 3-point percentage.
BET J. MORANT UNDER 19.5 POINTS (-110) for 1 unit.
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Houston Rockets C Christian Wood 1.5 made 3-pointers (-145)
The Rockets host the New Orleans Pelicans for the rubber match of their regular-season series and Wood was amazing in the one Pelicans-Rockets he played in (Jan. 30).
In that game, Wood scored 27 points on 84.6% shooting and connected on 3 of 4 3-pointers against New Orleans C Steven Adams.
In fact, Wood and Adams have met four times and Wood is averaging 24.5 points per game with 3.0 threes per game on 70.6% 3-point shooting.
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Most importantly, New Orleans has the fourth-worst defensive 3-point percentage as a team. Against opposing centers, the Pelicans have the fourth-worst defensive 3-point percentage and allow the third-most 3-point attempts per game.
BET C. WOOD OVER 1.5 MADE 3-POINTERS (-145) for a half-unit.
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