NBA best bets: Celtics etc. Knicks, nuggets etc. May 5 playoff elections for Thunder

The NBA continues today with the 1st game of the Western Conference semi-finals between Celtics-Knicks and Nuggets and Thunder. With many exciting players and teams in court, it will be difficult to design our NBA “Best Bets” list for the day.

However, we do a lot of foot work that passes through hundreds of markets available for each game, looking for the best bets, so that you are looking for the best bets (even if you always need to do some of your own homework).

Here are the NBA “best bets için for today's playoff games.

New York Knicks (+9) etc. Boston Celtics (-380), O/U 213

New York will be a real challenge in their hands in this game. Boston dominated Knicks in the normal season, sweeping the series, and three of the four matches won three -digit.

They will need a blind Brunson to play better than the pistons (31.5 points per game, 8.2 assists and 4.0 rebounds). It would definitely help them to reach more than Karl-Anthony towns.

Of course, they will have to slow Jayson Tatum (31.2 points per game and 11.3 rebounds) – something they can't understand how to do it in the normal season. Now there is no reason to think about what they will do.

Election: Celtics -9

Jayson Tatum, more than 27.5 points (-125)
After the season, it was more than 31 points and in the normal season, Knicks received more than 27.5 points in three of the four matches (there were 25 contradictions). There is no reason to think that Knicks can slow him down. Until someone does it, I'm going through me.

Jalen Brunson is below 27.5 points (-115)
Brunson only exceeded 27.5 against Boston in the normal season. While an average of 31.5 per game against pistons, Celtics's defense is much more difficult than Detroit. If Karl-Anthony Towns struggles, Brunson has a chance to go out.

However, when the towns fought in normal season matches, Boston still held Brunson until the 20s.

Denver Nuggets (+9.5) and Oklahoma City Thunder (-420), O/U 225

Oklahoma City was the “IT” team of the year because the high -power crime was deported from its rivals. However, Denver gave them a good fight in the normal season and two teams separated the series 2-2.

Thunder can be bent to the OKC with Nuggets, who plays for more than a week and played on Sunday. Then again, Denver was 14-9 years old in games with a disadvantage of resting, so there may not be a factor.

I can do a solid case for both teams to win this game, but as Nikola Jokic played (24.0 points, against 11.6 rebounds and 10.1 assists per game), I was surprised to see Thunder Win as a double -digit.

Election: Nuggets +9.5

To save Nikola Jokic, triple double (+120)
Jokic is the average of the triple pair (24.5 points, 15.8 rebounds and 11.5 assists) in the normal season series. In addition, although he recorded only three in seven games, he received the average in the first round against Clippers. There were two in four normal season games against Okc.

Thunder didn't contain it at that time, and I would expect it to be even harder with how he played it. Jokic may not get more than 20 points, but it will double.

CET Holmgren made 3 points below 1.5 (+130)
He shot three or more in three of the four games against Memphis, but he went to 15 to 15 in four normal season games against Denver. There were two brands in one game, but it was closed in the other two. After such a long dismissal, he will probably fight to find his three -point kick against a solid Nuggets defense.