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Monday’s NBA schedule features a few cross-conference battles including the Los Angeles Lakers at Atlanta Hawks and the Portland Trail Blazers at Milwaukee Bucks. Prop bets can be a fun, profitable way to wring some cash out of an NBA card. Here are a few NBA player prop bet predictions to consider Monday.
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Memphis Grizzlies PG Ja Morant OVER 22.5 points (+110)
The Grizzlies and San Antonio Spurs finish off their two-game miniseries in San Antonio after Memphis took the first game 129-112 Saturday. This has been a good matchup for Morant since entering the league last season.
Morant is averaging 23.0 points per game on 53.3% field-goal shooting which is his second-highest PPG average vs. any team. He likes to attack the rim and San Antonio is 23rd in opponent’s points in the paint per game and 28th in point guard shooting percentage.
Saturday, Morant put in 19 points on 57.1% shooting so maybe the market is overreacting to him scoring less than he usually does vs. the Spurs. If the Grizzlies’ role players struggle, they’ll lean on Morant to get them going and he shouldn’t have trouble given the matchup.
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Chicago Bulls PG Coby White UNDER 16.5 points (-125)
First-year New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau takes his team on the road to play his former employer Monday.
In true Thibs style, the Knicks are a hard-nosed and defensive-minded team that likes to grind out games. New York allows the fewest points per game in the Association and they play at the slowest pace. The Knicks are holding opposing point guards to 39.6% field-goal shooting, which is tied for second.
Whiteappears as though he’ll be at least an average starting point guard in this league but it’s only his second season and he’s going to be inconsistent at times. Over his last six games, he is averaging just 11.2 points per game on 37.1% shooting.
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Sacramento Kings SF Harrison Barnes OVER 1.5 made 3-pointers (-140)
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While Barnes put up a dud in the first Kings-Pelicans game of the season with only 7 points on 2-for-8 shooting, both of his baskets were threes. Barnes scored at least 22 points in each of his previous four games vs. the Pelicans and he’s drilled at least two 3-pointers in nine straight games against New Orleans.
Also, the Pelicans have been terrible at defending the three this season. New Orleans allows the most 3-pointers per game and is 23rd in 3-point defense as a team. Opposing small forwards are hitting over 40% of their threes vs. the Pelicans.
Furthermore, the Kings-Pelicans game is ripe for a shootout. Seven of their last eight meetings have gone Over the projected total and these teams have a combined 24-13 Over/Under record this season.
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As the NBA continues to tighten its health and safety protocols to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the league will begin requiring players to wear KN95 or KF94 masks in all instances where required, sources told ESPN.
The policy will go into effect in the next week, sources said. The league is in the process of getting masks to all 30 teams before making it mandatory that they are worn. Starting with games Friday, the NBA also plans to more strictly enforce current rules regarding the use of face masks.
Under the league's health and safety protocols, whenever players, coaches or staff members are required to wear masks -- including while on the bench during games -- they will now need to wear the KN95 or KF94 masks. Players are allowed to sit by themselves in a 'cooldown' area immediately after leaving games to catch their breath, but once they do they are supposed to return to the bench area and wear a mask.
This is one of several adjustments the NBA has made in recent weeks to tighten its protocols while there are more than 100,000 new cases of COVID-19 per day, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's data tracker. The league has had to postpone nearly two dozen games. Other adjustments include preventing players from having guests in hotel rooms on the road, and limiting on-court interactions before and after games.
The NBA was forced to postpone its 23rd game of the season Monday when the game between the Detroit Pistons and Denver Nuggets was called off because of an inconclusive test within the Pistons' travel party, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, who later reported that the team traveled to Salt Lake City and will be able to play Tuesday night's game against the Utah Jazz as scheduled.
The league has begun to reschedule games that had been postponed in an effort to make up the ground it has lost in an attempt to get each team to its originally scheduled 72 games. One of those rescheduled games, between the Washington Wizards and Portland Trail Blazers, will take place Tuesday night.
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The league also is in the process of getting its G League bubble off the ground in Orlando, Florida, with games scheduled to begin next week and continue for the next several weeks.