{"id":317019,"date":"2024-12-26T11:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T16:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=317019"},"modified":"2024-12-26T11:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T16:26:29","slug":"nba-prop-bets-december-26-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/nba-prop-bets-december-26-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Best NBA prop bets Dec. 26: Back DeAndre Ayton, Tyler Herro and Nikola Vucevic on Boxing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-84329f2b-7888-4034-9979-03e8608897e5\">We&#8217;re back to regularly scheduled programming with a nine-game Boxing Day NBA slate, starting at 7:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-84329f2b-7888-4034-9979-03e8608897e5\"><strong>The pregame narrative<\/strong>: Jimmy Butler has demanded a trade request which puts Tyler Herro in a position to be the alpha dog on the Miami Heat. I&#8217;m expecting him to score and also have bets on Nikola Vucevic and DeAndre Ayton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-8f1effd0-db18-40a8-916e-091372420d9e\">Check out the best NBA prop bets for Dec. 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-0a4ee124-09d4-4260-81c9-fd6fe232dbb3\">NBA prop bets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Go to full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/sports-hub\/basketball\/nba\">NBA betting markets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"cacheembed:104377\">Embed: #104377<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-479767b6-5872-497b-ac44-239c07c7e3d5\"><strong>Best bet: Herro over 22.5 points (-132)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-479767b6-5872-497b-ac44-239c07c7e3d5\">Let&#8217;s stay hot after going 3-for-3 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/article\/nba-prop-bets-december-25-2024\">yesterday&#8217;s prop bets<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-479767b6-5872-497b-ac44-239c07c7e3d5\">Based on how Herro&#8217;s played this season, you could already say he is &#8220;the guy&#8221; in Miami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>23.9 points\/game (team-high)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>17.6 FGA\/game (team-high)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>40.3% 3-point percentage (career-best)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Butler gave the Heat&#8217;s front office some coal on Christmas by requesting a trade \u2014 he&#8217;s listed as doubtful to play tonight, for obvious reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The small forward averaged 11.1 shots a night and that volume is likely going Herro&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miami is on the road against an Orlando Magic squad that&#8217;s ravaged by injuries. Moritz and Franz Wagner are out alongside Paolo Banchero but the team still ranks eighth in defensive rating this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Herro barely fell under this total with 22 points when he played the Magic on Dec. 21 but had an uncharacteristically poor shooting night (7-of-17). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The volume was still there, though, and this is a nice opportunity to get back on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key stat<\/strong>: Herro has scored 23+ points in 15 of 27 starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick picks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vucevic over 1.5 threes (-137)<\/strong>: Vucevic has taken a page out of Nikola Jokic&#8217;s playbook by massively improving his 3-point percentage as a big man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chicago Bulls center averages 2.1 makes on 4.7 attempts per night, an elite 45.2% clip. That&#8217;s after shooting 29.4% last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s cleared this mark in eight of his last 10 games and bagged multiples triples in both contests against the Atlanta Hawks earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atlanta allows the most 3s per game (15.9) at the second-highest rate (38.2%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ayton over 14.5 points (-106)<\/strong>: Ayton has been a remarkably consistent but largely unimpressive player this season, averaging between 14.1 and 14.4 points per game every month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s not putting up eye-popping numbers but is shooting the ball well \u2014 61.5% in December, to be exact \u2014 and has a high floor as a scorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s matchup against the Utah Jazz should be exploitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Utah allows the fourth-most points per game to opposing centers, according to Fantasy Pros, and the 11th-most points in the paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Picks made at 11:25 a.m. ET on 12\/26\/2024.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back to regularly scheduled programming with a nine-game Boxing Day NBA slate, starting at 7:00 p.m. ET. The pregame narrative: Jimmy Butler has demanded a trade request which puts Tyler Herro in a position to be the alpha dog on the Miami Heat. I&#8217;m expecting him to score and also have bets on Nikola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":317088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-317019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-nba"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NBA prop bets Dec. 26: Picks, predictions &amp; odds | NorthStar Bets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our best NBA prop bets for Dec. 26. 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