Zach Thompson details his best player prop bets on DraftKings Sportsbook for tonight’s game between the Bulls and the Blazers.
Wednesday night’s nine-game NBA slate wraps up with a matchup from the Pacific Northwest as the Bulls charge into Portland and take on the Trail Blazers. If you’re following the late game, there are some nice options to consider for player prop bets, so let’s jump in and take a look at a few that stand out as my favorites.
On DraftKings Sportsbook, the Bulls are 4.5-point road favorites, with the game total set at an elevated O/U 242.5 points. The Blazers have dropped three straight and five of their last six games to fall to 6-8. The Bulls were in a slide of their own, losing five straight before defeating the Nuggets on Monday to improve to 7-6.
Even though both teams are hovering around .500, they have a tendency to get into high-scoring contests, which should light up the night with plenty of offense in the late game. Let’s highlight some player prop bets that make sense from Wednesday’s contest.
Bulls vs. Trail Blazers Best Prop Bets on DraftKings Sportsbook
Nikola Vucevic to record a double-double (+120)
Vucevic nailed a key 3-pointer in the team’s win in Denver on Monday, but he still only finished with eight points while shooting an ugly 3-for-13 from the field.
He’s shooting 48.5% on the season and averaging 15.8 points per game, though, so he should be able to bounce back to get over 10 points against the porous front line of the Blazers fairly easily. They have allowed the fifth-most fantasy points to centers this season.
Vucevic is actually averaging a double-double with 10 rebounds per game, even though he has just six double-doubles in 13 games (46%).
Getting this at plus money in what should be such a high-scoring environment feels like a great value, especially since Vucevic has posted a double-double against Portland in eight of his last 10 head-to-head matchups with the Blazers, and he fell just one rebound short in one of the two games he missed out. As long as the Bulls give him close to his normal minutes and workload, he has a good chance to deliver on this plus-money prop on Wednesday night.
Toumani Camara 25+ Points + Rebounds + Assists (+104)
The Blazers will be extremely short-handed on Wednesday night, leaving plenty of work for Camara and the rest of the crew who are available. Jrue Holiday (calf) and Scoot Henderson (hamstring) are both out once again, while Shaedon Sharpe (calf) is now doubtful, and Jerami Grant (illness) is questionable.
Camara has shown he can step up with big games in short-handed situations like this in the past. The 25-year-old from Belgium is averaging 11.9 points, 5.0 rebounds, 2.9 assists, and 19.8 PRA (points, rebounds, and assists) per game this season, but he’ll be in for a much bigger workload in this game, especially if Grant ends up sitting out as well.
Camara has got over this total twice this season, and with so much more work on Wednesday, it makes sense that he’ll have a good chance to reach this level again against the Knicks.
Matas Buzelis over 1.5 3PM (-141)
Buzelis has hit multiple 3-pointers in 10 of his last 11 games and each of his last four. He has gone exactly 2-for-5 from long range in each of his last three games.
Buzelis is averaging 15.0 points per game and has scored double-digit points in 10 of his last 11 as well. His points at over 14.5 at -119 is attractive in this potentially high-scoring contest as well, but he has been so consistent with over 1.5 3PM, that I prefer that as the way to attack Buzelis’s props this Wednesday night.
