3 Best NBA Player Prop Bets for Wednesday 4/2/25

The beauty of the NBA is you will never be short on prop-betting options for a given slate.

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Using FanDuel Research's NBA projections as a guide, here are some NBA player prop bets that look appealing on FanDuel.

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Today's Best NBA Player Prop Picks

Kings at Wizards

Malik Monk Over 20.5 Pts + Ast (-102)

Malik Monk dished out seven dimes his last time out but couldn't get his shot going, shooting just 2 for 14 from the field.

Let's look for him to piece it together in a soft matchup against the Washington Wizards.

On the season, Monk is averaging 23.5 combined points and assists (PA) per game. He's cleared 20.5 PA at a 60.7% rate, as well as 66.7% of games where he played more than 25 minutes. These -102 odds imply only a 50.5% probability.

The Wizards are an ideal matchup for a myriad of reasons -- the main one being their pace of play (fourth-fastest in the NBA). Monk has played nine games against top-5 pace teams. He averaged a mighty 27.9 PA in this split and earned at least 26 PA in all but two of those contests.

On top of that, Washington checks in with the third-worst defensive rating in the league. They give up the most points and the fifth-most assists per game, including the second-most assists to guards per minute.

This matchup checks all the boxes, and Monk generated 27 PA against the Wizards earlier this season.

Knicks at Cavaliers

Karl Anthony Towns Over 23.5 Points (-114)

Karl-Anthony Towns has scored only 24 points combined on meh 34.5% FG% shooting across his last two games.

Before that rough stretch, Towns had played 11 games sans Jalen Brunson (out) this season. In this split, he averaged 27.3 points per game and scored at least 23 points in all but one contest.

With that, we can feel good about buying in on what Towns should (and had) been doing as he looks to put the past two games behind him.

A date with the Cleveland Cavaliers won't be easy, but Cleveland's style of play isn't limiting as scoring is concerned. They operate at the ninth-fastest pace in the NBA and cough up the fourth-most points per game to opposing centers.

KAT is netting 26.8 points per game versus top-10 pace teams. He has scored at least 23 points in 20 out of 28 games (71.4%) in this split. That sample -- for the most part -- doesn't even factor in Brunson's absence. That's awfully notable considering Towns is averaging 29.6 points per 36 minutes when Brunson is off the floor -- up from 25.0 points per 36 on the season.

I'll shout out KAT's teammate Josh Hart here, too. Hart's points prop is set at 11.5 -- a mark he has cleared in 73.6% of games -- with -104 odds on the over (50.9% implied probability).

Pelicans at Clippers

James Harden Over 34.5 Pts + Reb + Ast (-122)

The Los Angeles Clippers are favored by a mammoth 17.5 points against the New Orleans Pelicans.

It's a spread that signals garbage time and would normally keep me off betting overs on starters.

But James Harden has been so dang productive against the worst defenses in the league, so I'm having trouble not going there tonight.

Harden is averaging 39.0 combined points, rebounds, and assist (PRA) against bottom-10 defenses in the league -- up from 36.9 PRA on the season. If we narrow that split to include only the bottom-four defenses -- the Pelicans are dead-last -- Harden is averaging a thunderous 44.9 PRA. He tallied a minimum of 37 PRA in 11 of those 12 contests.

And while I respect where this spread is at, it's not unusual for a team like the Clippers to have their guard down against this mangled Pelicans group. After shutting down C.J. McCollum and Zion Williamson for the season, we'll see guys in the lineup who are looking to prove their worth in the Association.

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