In what could be a potential NBA Finals matchup down the road, we have the Oklahoma City Thunder visiting the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night in a colossal matchup on the hardwood. You can catch the game live from 7:30 pm ET on ESPN, and to add even more excitement to this high-stakes clash, I’ve pieced together my Thunder vs Celtics Same Game Parlay picks at +335 odds. Let’s break it down, while you can also find out our NBA picks for the rest of today’s action.
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Jayson Tatum’s ascent in the rebounding department has been evident this season. Compared to last season, he’s upped his average from 8.1 per game to 8.9, being way more active on the defensive end in grabbing nearly a full rebound per game more than last year. Whenever the Celtics have needed him he has stepped up to the task. We just saw him have a massive 40-point and 12-rebound game against the Lakers the other night, which was his 6th game of at least 10 rebounds over the past 10 games played. During this stretch, he’s cleared this line 7 times while averaging 10.1 rebounds per game.
Oklahoma City’s rebounding issues have been well-documented this season, as they allow the 4th-most boards per game at 54.5. Over their last 3 games that number has stayed consistent at 55 per game, so let’s hope Tatum can take advantage of that here. He’s averaging 8.2 rebounds per game in the last 10 meetings head-to-head.
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With the Thunder potentially being without their 2nd leading scorer Jalen Williams here, it’ll be up to Chet Holmgren to step up to the task and help Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on offense. Since returning from injury, Holmgren has slowly increased his workload on offense and as a result over his last 4 road games he is averaging 17 ppg in just 25.6 minutes. That kind of points-per-minute production is hard to ignore, even against a Celtics team that has done a solid job defensively all year long.
Holmgren is basically a carbon copy of Kristaps Porzingis — he can use his size down low to get shots over defenders, but he can also take it outside the perimeter and drain threes off the dribble. His main matchup on defense will be 38-year-old Al Horford, and with all due respect to him, I do not believe he will be able to stay in front of Holmgren in this game. Chet has scored 19+ points in 3 of his last 7 games, and I believe there is great value in him reaching 20 here at +250 odds to bring home our Thunder vs Celtics Same Game Parlay.
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