In today’s Best Games To Bet On, a pair of blockbuster games will be served to fully satisfy your basketball and betting cravings.
Our first game features Anthony Davis and the rest of the New Orleans Pelicans paying the Oklahoma City Thunder a visit at the Chesapeake Energy Arena. Following shortly, another interesting battle commences at the Haas Pavilion, wherein the California Bears will be putting their perfect home record (14-0) on the line versus the eleventh-ranked Oregon Ducks.
Read on below for a brief look at these two promising games. And if you’re also craving for some more college hoops action, check out our complete preview of the Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Indiana Hoosiers.
New Orleans Pelicans vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (8:00 PM ET)
Line: New Orleans Pelicans (+12) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (-12); total: 220.0 – view all NBA lines
The New Orleans Pelicans have not lived up to the expectations under their new head coach Alvin Gentry. They are only 20-32 on the season, which is good for the fourth-worst record in the Western Conference. But on the bright side, there’s still enough time for them to make a late playoff-surge.
The Pelicans can start doing so by relying on the shoulders of their top scoring threats in Anthony Davis (23.5 PPG), Ryan Anderson (17.1 PPG) and Jrue Holiday (14.7 PPG) to lead them opposite the Thunder, who are allowing just 98.9 PPG points at home this year, tonight.
Oklahoma City, meanwhile, is coming off a 16-point win against Phoenix, during which Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook led the charge with 61 points combined. Both are bound to put on another dominant outing versus a shaky Pelicans defense that’s giving up at least a hundred points in its previous five contests.
New Orleans is 3-7 SU and 5-5 ATS in its last 10 road games. Oklahoma City, on the other hand, is 9-1 SU and 6-3-1 ATS in its past 10 at home.
Click here for our complete preview of this Western Conference clash.
Oregon walks into this game with some serious momentum on its side. The Ducks have won their last six games and have beaten their opponents by an average of 14.1 point during that span. A testament to this on-going success is none other than their star forward in Dillon Brooks, who is posting 21.4 points in his previous five outings. Brooks and co., though, might have their work cut out for them against a respectable California defense (66.7 points allowed per game).
As for the Golden Bears, they’ll be hoping that the thunderous cheers of their home crowd can help them maintain their untarnished record (14-0) at home. Expect Jaylen Brown and Tyrone Wallace to be very aggressive in this one as both are putting around 15 points per contest. The two will also be set to test a Ducks’ defense that is yielding 70.9 points on the road this season.
Oregon is 3-2 SU and ATS in its last five on the road. California, meanwhile, is 5-5 SU and ATS in its last 10 games.
Click here for our full analysis of this Pac-12 showdown.
