Filip Tomic
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Halloween night brings us 3 very exciting NBA match-ups, including a TNT double-header. My focus is on the New York Knicks vs Cleveland Cavaliers which tips-off at 7 ET on TNT. I’ve prepared a Same Game Parlay which is available below.
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Donovan Mitchell to Score 35+ Points (+175)
Julius Randle to Record 10+ Rebounds (-230)
Jalen Brunson to Score 20+ Points (-250)
Same Game Parlay odds: +641
Donovan Mitchell to Score 35+ Points (+175)
Cleveland hasn’t had the start to the season their fans hoped they would with just 1 win in 3 outings. They just lost to Indiana with their 2 best scorers, Mitchell and Garland, out. Garland has been ruled out for tonight’s game, while Mitchell is a game-time decision as he tries to recover from a minor hamstring issue. With him averaging 35 points in the 2 games so far this season on 54% efficiency and Garland out of the way, we might be in for another big performance by the shooting guard. In his last 5 regular season games, he’s averaging 32.6 points per game vs New York, while clearing this line 3 times. His average dropped to just 23.2 points in last year’s playoff series, so surely he will want to make amends here.
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Julius Randle to Record 10+ Rebounds (-230)
His shooting and points per game production might be down, but Randle has delivered on the glass for New York in each of the 3 games this season. He’s averaging 12 rebounds per game in 2 road game, he is yet to go under 10 rebounds this season. Similarly to Mitchell, he didn’t have the best of series against Cleveland in the playoffs, but despite that he still had at least 8 rebounds in 3 of the game 5 played, including the first 2 taking place in Cleveland. He should also benefit from the absence of Jarrett Allen, who is Cleveland’s best rebounder. Evan Mobley is no match for the physical more dominant and more experienced Randle here.
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Jalen Brunson to Score 20+ Points (-250)
New York is a bottom 10 team in most offensive stats through the first 3 games, but with so much talent on their roster, I think it’s only a matter of time until that improves. Jalen Brunson has had a lot of success against the Cavs in last year’s series despite the Knicks getting eliminated in 5 games. He averaged 24 points and scored at least 20 in each of the 5 games played. So far this season, he’s at exactly 20 points per game, on a whopping 48% efficiency from three-point land. Darius Garland not playing means that Donovan Mitchell will have to carry the scoring load here, so Brunson could have an easier path to the basket. The Cavaliers are one of his favorite opponents because in the last regular season visit to Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, he dropped 48 points. I don’t think he will explode like that tonight, but an efficient 20-point game should be very doable here.
