This New York Knicks and Portland Trail Blazers close out the NBA’s nine-game slate at Moda Center on Wednesday.
The pregame narrative: New York is a slim road favourite and I love the team to cover a small spread in this +325 play. Legs on Anfernee Simons and OG Anunoby round out this same-game parlay recommendation.
Check out my Knicks vs. Trail Blazers SGP predictions for March 12.
Knicks vs. Trail Blazers predictions
Parlay: Knicks -3.5 | Simons 3+ threes | Anunoby 3+ threes (+325)
Knicks -3.5 (-120): New York is on the road and without star point guard Jalen Brunson but this line still feels light.
The Knicks have 13 more wins than Portland, have been strong on the road (20-12), and sport the sixth-best net rating in the NBA (Portland ranks No. 23).
Portland has been one of the strongest teams in the NBA against the spread and significantly better than New York. But as a bottom-10 team, the Blazers are often given more than 3.5 points.
The Blazers are going to be without a couple of key bodies tonight while the Knicks are in good shape outside of Brunson.
Portland has dropped four straight, losing by double digits in three of them.
While the Blazers are 5-5 straight up over their last 10, those wins came against five of the seven worst teams in the NBA.
NBA SGP legs
Simons 3+ threes (-315): The Blazers guard is cooking.
In six games this month, Simons is averaging 28.5 points on 22.2 attempts from the field. He’s torched everyone he’s played outside of the Western Conference-best Oklahoma City Thunder.
- March 10: 32 pts, 6 threes
- March 9: 34 points, 4 threes
- March 7: 14 points, 1 three
- March 5: 30 points, 3 threes
- March 3: 34 points, 6 threes
- March 2: 27 points, 4 threes
Simons took at least 10 three-point attempts in the five games he hit this line.
He’s averaging 3.1 per game this season and the Knicks rank second-last in the NBA in opponent 3-point percentage.
Anunoby over 16.5 points (-129): Thanks to his outside work, Anunoby has cleared this line in five of his last six games.
Anunoby has drilled three-plus 3-pointers in all but one of those contests. He’s averaging 8.8 attempts from long range in March, by far his highest output of any month this season.
Some more things to like about the way Anunoby is trending:
- 15+ FGA in 7 straight
- 40+ mins in 3 of 5 March games
- 13-12 vs. this line in last 25
He’s 13-20 in his other 33 games.
Tom Thibodeau rides his starters hard and Brunson’s absence should only help Anunoby stay on the court vs. Portland, which has allowed more than 125 points in five of its last eight losses.
Knicks vs. Trail Blazers predictions made at 11:20 a.m. ET 03/12/2025.
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