Filip Tomic
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Saturday’s +596 odds NBA Parlay cashed, and we are looking to close out the week on a high with Sunday’s 9-game slate. Our friends in Europe will be happy to see games tipping-off as early as 3pm today, after a thorough analysis of all 9 matchups, I’ve come up with a tasty NBA Mega Parlay which is available below.
Visit our NBA predictions page for picks on the spread and total for Sunday’s 9-game slate, but let’s not waste any more time and get right into it.
Kings ML (-110)
Thunder -7.5 (-110)
Rockets ML (+180)
Parlay odds: +943
Sacramento Kings ML over Dallas Mavericks (-110)
The Kings are on a 5-game win streak, but the oddsmakers don’t have a lot of faith in them tonight as they enter the game as 1.5-point underdogs. That’s a little surprising to me considering this team is 8-3 ATS in the last 11 games vs Dallas and has covered in 9 of their last 11 visits to American Airlines Center. De’Aaron Fox just dropped 43 points on the Spurs, he is now the NBA’s points per game leader at 32.2.
The Mavericks gave it their all last night, but it still wasn’t enough as they fell 132-125 on the road in Milwaukee. With so much energy wasted last night, playing a fast paced team like the Kings isn’t ideal at all. They did finish with a 8-7 record on 2nd nights of back-to-backs last season, but with Maxi Kleber already out, this team is very thin on the glass. Facing a dominant rebounder like Domantas Sabonis just screams trouble to me. Sacramento is the more in-form team here, they’re also no strangers to winning in games where they are the underdogs with a 2-1 SU record so far this season.
Check out my Sacramento Kings vs Dallas Maverick predictions
Oklahoma City Thunder -7.5 over Portland Trail Blazers (-110)
The Thunder were in action last night and once again they beat the Golden State Warriors on the road for their 5th win in 6 games. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren led the charge with monster performances of 40 and 36 points. As a team, OKC shot 52% from the field and despite knocking down just 8 threes, they were able to put up 130 on the Warriors. Spirits will be high ahead of tonight’s game, despite this being a 2nd night of a back-to-back for them. They’ve beaten the Blazers in 8 of the last 10 meetings, while also covering the spread 7 times.
Portland is just in a funk right now, losing their last 6 games and covering just twice during that stretch. Dating back to last season, they’ve won only once in their last 15 games at the Moda Center. There’s a long list of injuries currently derailing them as Malcolm Brogdon, Robert Williams III, Scoot Henderson and Anfernee Simons are all out. Without those 3 capable scorers and a rebounder like Timelord, the Blazers have failed to crack the 100 point mark in their last 3 games, losing each of them by double-digits. I just cannot see how this team improves all of a sudden. They do have the rest advantage, but the Thunder are 5-1 SU on the road this season and should handle them here fairly easily.
Houston Rockets ML over Los Angeles Lakers (+180)
And to cap off the parlay, for an odds increase, I have the Houston Rockets beating the LA Lakers for the 2nd time this season. The first meeting of the year was played 10 days ago and it wasn’t really close as the Rockets blew out LA 128-94. Since then, this team has won 2 of 3 games, taking down a formidable Pelicans squad, followed by a 3-point triumph over the defending champion Nuggets. Ime Udoka has them playing at the 4th best defensive rating, when you put the effort on that end on a nightly basis you’ll rack up many wins in the regular season.
The Lakers were handicapped in that game at Houston as Anthony Davis couldn’t play. Without him in the line-up they were outrebounded 57-34, while allowing 14 offensive rebounds to the Rockets. Entering tonight’s game, AD is a game time decision with a hip problem, so if he doesn’t play the Lakers could be in a lot of trouble. Houston has covered the spread in 6 of the last 9 head-to-head, so let’s give them the benefit of the doubt here and back them to win their first road game of the season against the Lakers.
