The Houston Rockets and New York Knicks take part in a marquee cross-conference matchup.
The pregame narrative: The Rockets are a well-oiled machine that continues to be competitive night in and night out. I like them to cover an alternate spread mixed with player props on Dillon Brooks and Karl-Anthony Towns in this +310 SGP.
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Parlay: Rockets +9.5 + Brooks over 13.5 points + Towns over 0.5 blocks (+310)
Rockets +9.5 (-235): Houston continues to be one of the best away teams in the NBA.
The Rockets have an incredible 17-7 road record and have covered this teased-up spread in 12 straight away games.
They have the league’s best ATS record as an underdog on the road (7-2-1), per Team Rankings. In late January, the Rockets beat both the Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics in their home arenas.
Houston has been a hard team to beat big all season and I expect that to be the case again on Monday.
Other SGP legs
Brooks over 13.5 points (-105): The Canadian is playing a ton of minutes for the Rockets and he’s scoring with great efficiency right now.
Brooks plays 32.0 minutes per game this season so it’s worth backing him when he’s on a hot streak.
He’s cleared this line in three of his past four games, including a season-high 36 points on the road against the Celtics on Jan. 27.
In those four contests, Brooks is scoring 21.3 points and shooting 51.4% on 8.8 three-point attempts per game.
And now Fred Van Vleet is sidelined with an injury opening up more touches for Brooks. I really like his floor tonight as a scorer.
Towns over 0.5 blocks (-215): Towns is in a major scoring slump right now but I’m backing the over on a defensive prop for the big man.
This leg is juiced considering Towns isn’t known for his rim protection but it brings the SGP from +160 to +310 and there’s some solid supporting data.
He has a block in 24-of-44 games this season (54.5%) which isn’t anything crazy but the Rockets have allowed the second most blocks to centres (2.7/game), per Fantasy Pros.
In his first meeting against the Rockets back on Nov. 4, Towns recorded a block in the loss.
Since Jan. 1, the Rockets allowed a block to 14-of-15 centres who started against them.
Picks made at 11:06 a.m. on 02/03/2025.
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