{"id":348724,"date":"2025-05-24T11:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=348724"},"modified":"2025-05-24T11:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T15:45:53","slug":"knicks-vs-pacers-game-3-nba-sgp-predictions-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/knicks-vs-pacers-game-3-nba-sgp-predictions-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks vs. Pacers  SGP predictions Game 3: Fade Hart, look for Towns to stay active on the glass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a stunning pair of road victories, the Indiana Pacers are back home for Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals with a chance to push the New York Knicks to the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The pregame narrative:<\/strong> Indiana never trailed in the fourth quarter of Game 2, and now the team is just two wins shy of its first NBA Finals appearance since 2000. It&#8217;ll be an uphill climb for the Knicks, but they are 5-1 on the road so far in the playoffs (with four underdog victories).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my Pacers vs. Knicks SGP predictions for Game 3 on May 25, featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/players\/karl_anthony_towns\">Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/players\/josh_hart\">Josh Hart<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nba\/players\/aaron_nesmith\">Aaron Nesmith<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pacers vs. Knicks predictions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parlay: Hart under 10.5 points | Towns 10+ rebounds | Nesmith 2+ threes (+335)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hart under 10.5 points (-129): <\/strong>Hart has been whisper-quiet so far in this series, totalling just 14 points through two games on nine shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Game 2, he spent the first six-and-a-half minutes of the fourth quarter on the bench as the Knicks gave Miles McBride some crunch-time run. That&#8217;s not a good omen for Hart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hart&#8217;s 24-point night against Boston in Game 5 of the second round is starting to look like an anomaly when you stack up the rest of his recent performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over his past six games, Hart has cashed this under five times. And he&#8217;s shooting just 41.7% from the floor in that span.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just don&#8217;t trust that Hart will be involved enough on offence to clear this number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"cacheembed:114120\">Embed: #114120<\/a><\/p>\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<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NBA SGP legs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong>Towns 10+ rebounds<\/strong><\/strong> (-195):<\/strong> KAT only had seven rebounds in Game 2, but that&#8217;s an outlier compared to his recent production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In his past 10 games, Towns is 8-2 vs. this milestone while averaging 12.1 RPG.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> He also has 55 total boards in five matchups vs. the Pacers this season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Indiana has allowed more rebounds to opponents than any other Eastern Conference playoff team. The Pacers don&#8217;t employ a 7-footer, which is part of the reason, and they play at the fastest pace of all the East teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KAT&#8217;s main rebounding rival is probably his teammate, Mitchell Robinson. But Robinson is a free throw liability who also happened to roll an ankle in the second half on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if Robinson has a normal workload (20-25 minutes), there should be enough time for KAT to get 10 boards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nesmith 2+ threes (-165):<\/strong> After going nuclear in Game 1, shooting 8-for-9 from deep, Nesmith had a more subdued showing in Game 2. But he still cashed this milestone, and I want to buy back in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep in mind that the fifth-year forward has been putting on a 3-point shooting clinic for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>March:<\/strong> 2.8 threes\/game, 45.8 3PT%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>April:<\/strong> 2.5 threes\/game, 50.0 3PT%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>May:<\/strong> 3.3 threes\/game, 56.1 3PT%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Nesmith has cashed this bet in nine of 12 postseason games, including a 2-for-3 showing in Game 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why the Pacers aren&#8217;t consistently giving him more chances than that, but his efficiency makes him worth backing regardless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Knicks vs. Pacers predictions made at 11:25 a.m. ET 05\/24\/2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a stunning pair of road victories, the Indiana Pacers are back home for Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals with a chance to push the New York Knicks to the edge. The pregame narrative: Indiana never trailed in the fourth quarter of Game 2, and now the team is just two wins shy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":348745,"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-348724","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>Knicks vs. Pacers predictions Game 3: NBA playoffs | NSB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check our NBA Game 3 Knicks vs. Pacers SGP predictions. 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