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It promises to be another exciting night in the NBA with 7 game being played, including a NBA on TNT doubleheader. It all starts with the Washington Wizards and Milwaukee Bucks squaring off at 7:30 pm ET, I’ve prepared a same game parlay for that game which you can find below.
Be sure to also check our predictions on the side and total for the rest of Tuesday’s 7-game slate, but without wasting any more time let’s dive into the Wizards vs Bucks matchup!
Kyle Kuzma to score 25+ points (+200)
Khris Middleton over 19.5 points (-110)
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 3+ made threes (+148)
Parlay odds: +1268
Kyle Kuzma to score 25+ points (+200)
Not having Bradley Beal will be a big handicap for the Washington Wizards in this game, but they’ve actually fared well in games without their best player this season. They’ve won 6 of 9 games with him not playing and a major reason for that has been the play of Kyle Kuzma, who has averaged 18.6 points per game on almost 48% from the field.
For the month of January, he has improved a lot and has averaged 22.5 points per game, scoring 25 or more points in 7 games. He is just coming off a 30-point night in the loss at Memphis, with Beal out of the picture the Wizards can definitely count on Kuzma to keep them in this game. Kuz had a stretch of 20+ point games for 6 straight earlier this month, so hopefully he can continue his solid play as the main scoring option for Washington in this game.
Be sure to check out our full game preview for Washington Wizards vs Milwaukee Bucks
Khris Middleton over 19.5 points (-110)
It was a game to forget for Middleton against Denver over the weekend as he scored just 9 points on 4-for-8 shooting from the field. That kind of performance was very unusual for a player like Middleton, who has been lights out over his last 10 games averaging 22.7 points per game and shooting almost 49% from the field and 41% from downtown. In 14 games played in January, he has scored 20 or more points in 10 of them, so I’m really liking his chances to kick off February in the same manner.
For his career, Middleton is averaging 21 points per game against Washington in 22 games played and in the last 4 games he has played against them he has recorded 23, 16, 50 and 51 points. He has gone over 20 in 5 of the last 7 as well, so expect a bounce-back game from Middleton here.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 3+ made threes (+148)
Not having Beal also means more shot attempts for Caldwell-Pope. He is the team’s most efficient three-point shooter (not counting the 2 PFs who take a low volume of shots) at 37.5% on 2 makes per game while attempting 5.4 shots a night. With Beal missing I expect his stats to go way up, just like they have in the 6 games he has played without him in the lineup. In those 6 games, he has attempted 6.5 threes per game and is making 2.3 of them a game on 36% shooting from deep.
Just 2 games ago against the Bucks, Caldwell-Pope had a game in which he drained 7 threes and back in 2019 when he was with the Lakers he had a game in which he had 8 on 14 attempts. He just had 3 threes made in his last game against Memphis, so if he can drain one early we are in a good spot here.
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