{"id":340785,"date":"2025-04-21T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=340785"},"modified":"2025-04-21T11:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:29:14","slug":"clippers-vs-nuggets-game-2-nba-sgp-predictions-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/clippers-vs-nuggets-game-2-nba-sgp-predictions-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers vs. Nuggets SGP predictions Game 2: Bet on Kawhi Leonard, fade Jamal Murray at +300"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a thrilling overtime finish in Game 1, the Los Angeles Clippers and Denver Nuggets run it back on Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The pregame narrative<\/strong>: Denver erased an early 15-point deficit to force overtime and win 112-110 on Saturday. In this +300 SGP, I&#8217;m backing the Nuggets to at least keep things close with prop bets on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/top-players\/points\/season\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/players\/jamal_murray\">Jamal Murray<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my Clippers vs. Nuggets playoff SGP predictions for Game 2 on April 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clippers vs. Nuggets predictions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/sports-hub\/basketball\/nba?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=sportsbook_nba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Full NBA betting markets<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/article\/nba-injury-report?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=injury_reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>NBA injury report<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/top-players?utm_source=insights&amp;utm_medium=text_link&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=stats_pages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>NBA stats &amp; standings<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parlay: Nuggets +8.5 | Leonard 2+ threes | Murray under 19.5 points (+300)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"cacheembed:112722\">Embed: #112722<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Nuggets +8.5 <\/strong>(-400):<\/strong> Backing the Nuggets at home in the postseason \u2014 or in general \u2014 is a pretty safe bet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Denver is 15-4 SU in the playoffs since the 2022-23 season, covering a +8.5 spread in 18 of 19 games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It went 26-15 SU at home during the regular season, covering a +8.5 spread in 33 of 41 games. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Los Angeles looked like the better team on Saturday \u2014 holding Denver to a collective 43.6 FG% \u2014 but it still lost. That&#8217;s a bad sign for the road team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Clippers have failed to cover this number in all five games against the Nuggets this season (Saturday included), going 1-3 straight up at Ball Arena. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NBA SGP legs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong>Leonard 2+ threes <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>(-200):<\/strong> I love the value of adding this leg to the parlay. Leonard wasn&#8217;t active from deep in Game 1 (1-for-3 shooting), but I&#8217;m not worried about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Claw was on fire from 3-point land to close out the regular season, averaging 2.5 makes on 46.3% shooting in the final 10 games. In that span, he went 9-1 against this line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denver struggled to defend the arc all season, allowing opponents to shoot 36.5% from deep (24th in the NBA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Murray under 19.5 points<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> (-121):<\/strong> Murray has cleared this line in four of his last five games against the Clippers, but I believe some regression is coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Canadian PG never scored more than 22 points in those contests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Murray scored 21 points on 35.0% shooting in Game 1 (ended regulation with 19 points).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Murray takes 44% of his shots from the mid-range, which ranks in the 88th percentile of all NBA players, according to Cleaning the Glass. L.A. had the fifth-best mid-range defence in the NBA (42.1%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Clippers also held opposing point guards to the seventh-fewest PPG this season, per Fantasy Pros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Clippers vs. Nuggets predictions made at 11:05 a.m. ET 04\/21\/2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a thrilling overtime finish in Game 1, the Los Angeles Clippers and Denver Nuggets run it back on Monday night. The pregame narrative: Denver erased an early 15-point deficit to force overtime and win 112-110 on Saturday. In this +300 SGP, I&#8217;m backing the Nuggets to at least keep things close with prop bets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":340791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-340785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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>Clippers vs. Nuggets predictions Game 2: NBA playoffs SGP | NSB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Clippers vs. Nuggets SGP predictions for Game 2 of the NBA playoffs. 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