NBA Player Prop Bets, Odds & Picks: Monday (12/2)
There are just four NBA games tonight. The contest between the Atlanta Hawks and New Orleans Pelicans should prove to be a high-scoring one. How will Dejounte Murray and Trae Young fare in that game? And how will Nikola Vucevic perform in his second game against the Brooklyn Nets this season?
Here are the three best NBA player props for Monday, December 2.
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Monday’s Best NBA Player Prop Bets
This Season: 15-14 (+3.30 units) | Odds courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook
Dejounte Murray 3+ Made Three-Pointers (+175)
Murray went 0-of-6 from deep in Sunday's loss to the New York Knicks. The performance came after knocking down three of his six attempts from deep against the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday. Since returning to the lineup on November 27, Murray has attempted six three-pointers in each of his three games. He's made multiple threes in two of those three contests.
While many will be wary of Murray heading into this game, he gets to face the worst three-point defense in basketball. The Hawks are allowing 16.4 makes per game, and though they're allowing an average of just 14.7 per contest in their last three, they allowed 18 their last time out. The Pelicans have five players averaging more three-pointers per game than Murray, but since he's finding a way to get up six shots in every game, I'll take my chances for this price in a great matchup.
Trae Young 4+ Made Three-Pointers (+190)
My second play comes from the same game, and I'm once again taking a shooter who puts up a lot of shots from beyond the arc to succeed in a good matchup. Young has made three or fewer three-pointers in seven consecutive games, which is the main reason why the price for this prop is so good. Despite that lack of success in recent contests, Young is still averaging 2.7 makes per game, but more importantly, he's attempting 8.3 shots per game.
That type of volume should help lead him to a successful night against the Pelicans. The Pelicans are allowing 14.6 three-pointers per game, the third-most in the league, and they're allowing 17.7 over their last three contests. When Young faced this defense earlier this season, he made five of his 10 three-pointers.
Nikola Vucevic Over 10.5 Rebounds (-125)
Vucevic has pulled down at least 11 rebounds in three consecutive games to bring his season average to 10 boards per game. He has pulled down at least 10 rebounds in 14 of his 21 gamers this season, proving that it takes a really bad matchup for him to record single-digit rebounds in a game.
Fortunately for Vucevic, tonight's matchup isn't a really bad one. The Nets rank 14th in the league in rebounds allowed per game, giving up 52.3 per contest. In their last game, they allowed 59. Earlier this season, Vucevic pulled down 11 rebounds against the Nets. Nothing has changed since then to suggest that he won't have the same success tonight.
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