Blowouts suck. Plain and simple. The Raptors were dogwater last night, and the Pels barely had to get off the bus to win by about a billion. Thus, Brandon Ingram played 25 basically meaningless minutes and didn’t come anywhere near the line we needed for our NBA parlay picks. But, thems the breaks in the NBA, and there’s nothing we can do. Now it’s time for our top NBA parlay picks for today, Wednesday, March 6th, including an NBA player prop pick for Chet Holmgren. Need more action? Check out our NBA betting tools or our NBA betting promos!
NBA Parlay Picks Today: Best Bet for Wednesday
James Harden o17.5 Points (NBA Player Prop)
We want revenge, so we’re opening our NBA parlay picks today with a bit of a revenge narrative. There might be no more vengeful player in the NBA than James Harden. This guy lives to prove a point, and he’s playing his former team in the Houston Rockets tonight.
The bet: James Harden over 17.5 points in Houston.
This is a number that Harden has gone over in 25 games this season, a game in which he scored 24 points against Houston back in November.
In his last four games against the Rockets, Harden has:
- 25 points
- 21 points
- 28 points
- 24 points
So he’s cashed this bet in four straight, and if you zoom out to his last EIGHT games, he’s cashed it FIVE times, finished on the hook TWICE and finished with 16 ONCE.
Over the last seven games, no team in the NBA has allowed more points to point guards than the Rockets. They’re giving up just under 30 points per game in that span; and if you look at their last 15, it’s not much better at 28.6 points per game.
He’s been all over this number historically against Houston, and he’s getting the Rockets on a back-to-back. And while Houston is known for unders, they are more likely to go over the projected when they’re at a rest disadvantage this season.
Chet Holmgren o15.5 Points (NBA Player Prop)
We haven’t put much of our coin on Chet Holmgren this season, but this feels like a great spot to do so.
Chet gets to go up against a Portland Trail Blazers defense that is allowing 24.32 points per game to centers this season.
Let’s zoom in on the Blazers against centers a little:
- Last 30 Games: 25.93 PPG
- Last 15 Games: 25.8 PPG
- Last 7 Games: 24.44 PPG
Obviously, it’s a tasty matchup. And if we take a look at how Chet has done over the last seven games, we see that he’s cashed this bet five times; and he finished on the hook in his last game out.
This is a bet that Chet has cashed in 61% of games this season, and he averages 17 points per game on the season.
We’re not even asking him to reach his season average, and against this woeful Blazers team, I think he gets it done.
Final NBA Picks & Parlay Bet Today
Leg 1: Chet Holmgren o15.5 Points
Leg 2: James Harden o17.5 Points
= +249 odds at Bet365 Sportsbook
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