{"id":326943,"date":"2025-02-08T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=326943"},"modified":"2025-02-08T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:02:09","slug":"celtics-vs-knicks-prop-picks-february-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/celtics-vs-knicks-prop-picks-february-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics vs. Knicks prop picks Feb. 8: Fade Karl-Anthony Towns, Jayson Tatum in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m fading two of the biggest names in Saturday&#8217;s star-studded matchup between the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The pregame narrative:<\/strong> There will be plenty of star power at Madison Square Garden tonight, both on and off the court. But neither <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/players\/karl_anthony_towns\">Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> nor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/players\/jayson_tatum\">Jayson Tatum<\/a> finds himself in a good spot to thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my Celtics vs. Knicks prop picks for Feb. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celtics vs. Knicks prop picks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/sports\/basketball\/competitions\/10240\"><strong>Full NBA betting markets<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/article\/nba-injury-report-news\"><strong>NBA injury report<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/top-players\"><strong>NBA player stats<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/standings\"><strong>NBA standings<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-479767b6-5872-497b-ac44-239c07c7e3d5\"><strong>Best bet: Towns under 23.5 points (-112)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-479767b6-5872-497b-ac44-239c07c7e3d5\">It&#8217;s still a pretty small sample, but Towns has struggled to regain his shooting touch in eight games since suffering a thumb injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Pre-injury:<\/strong> 25.4 PPG, 55.0 FG%, 44.9 3PT%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Post-injury:<\/strong> 19.3 PPG, 44.8 FG%, 25.0 3PT%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tough matchup against the Celtics, I feel compelled to ride with KAT&#8217;s current trend and take the under on his point total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Towns has been asked about his thumb injury multiple times since returning to action. And multiple times, he&#8217;s said, &#8220;It is what it is.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Karl-Anthony Towns is 1-of-9 from three since returning from a thumb injury<br><br>After saying &quot;it is what it is&quot; a few times, he&#39;s asked directly if the thumb is affecting his shot: &quot;For sure&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bpAnN3mRvI\">pic.twitter.com\/bpAnN3mRvI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Knicks Videos (@sny_knicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sny_knicks\/status\/1881912766803702226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Without trying to glean too much from a five-word quote, I&#8217;ll say it doesn&#8217;t offer a flowery outlook on how he&#8217;s feeling about the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly he&#8217;s content to play (and shoot) through it, but so far the results have left a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boston is a stout defensive squad that ranks fifth in defensive rating, fifth in points allowed and fourth in opponent FG%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Celtics also allow the second-fewest points to opposing centres (19.9), per Betting Pros. They held KAT to 12 points in the season opener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-479767b6-5872-497b-ac44-239c07c7e3d5\"><strong>Key stat<\/strong>: Towns has gone under 22.5 points in five of eight games since the thumb injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick pick<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tatum under 7.5 rebounds (-134):<\/strong> Any lingering thumb issues for KAT haven&#8217;t affected his ability to grab rebounds. He had 20 last time out and is averaging 13.6 RPG on the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a whole, the Knicks allow the fewest rebounds per game to their opponents (41.1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of that has to do with their below-average pace, but it&#8217;s also because they have the sixth-highest rebounding rate in the NBA (51.5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this serves as the foundation of why I&#8217;m fading Tatum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And on an individual level, Tatum has struggled to clear this line recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though he&#8217;s still averaging a team-high 8.7 rebounds this season, Tatum has posted just 6.4 RPG in his past 12 games \u2014 cashing this under nine times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Picks made at 3:55 p.m. ET 02\/08\/2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m fading two of the biggest names in Saturday&#8217;s star-studded matchup between the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks. The pregame narrative: There will be plenty of star power at Madison Square Garden tonight, both on and off the court. But neither Karl-Anthony Towns nor Jayson Tatum finds himself in a good spot to thrive. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":326906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[452,62],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-326943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-com","category-nba","tag-nba-betting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Celtics vs. Knicks prop picks: Feb. 8 | NorthStar Bets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Celtics vs. Knicks prop picks for Feb. 8. 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