Best NBA Player Props Today for April 8: Chet a Tall Task For Small Clippers

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The dying days of the NBA regular season are loaded with unknowns.
 
While bettors are scratching their heads when it comes to motivations, minutes, and matchups, take comfort in knowing that bookmakers are doing the same.

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Picking through the prop markets for value at this time of year requires digging deeper beyond stats and projections. I do my damndest to find those underlying edges with my best NBA prop picks for Wednesday, April 8.

Best NBA player props today

Player

Pick

Chet Holmgren

Over 14.5 points

-110

Donovan Mitchell

Under 24.5 points

-105

Aaron Gordon

Over 2.5 assists

+120

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Prop #1: Chet Holmgren Over 14.5 Points

-110 at bet365

The Oklahoma City Thunder can secure the No. 1-overall seed in the NBA Playoffs with a win over the Los Angeles Clippers tonight. This contest looks a lot stiffer than OKC’s recent run of games.

The Thunder were set as double-digit faves in nine of their last 11 outings. Oklahoma City steamrolled in their three most recent showings, allowing for a lighter load for starters like Chet Holmgren.

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Holmgren logged just 18, 20, and 22 minutes in that span, but the game script says he’ll see his normal workload (30+ minutes) vs. a Clippers squad (+6.5) still pushing for postseason positioning.

Los Angeles is running thin in the frontcourt. It’s been missing reserve center Yanic Konan Niederhauser for a month, and lost Isaiah Jackson to an ankle injury at the end of March. That’s left L.A. to roll out a much smaller rotation and lean on the 37-year-old legs of Brook Lopez as the lone center.

Holmgren will draw checks from the slower Lopez or smaller forwards John Collins and Nicolas Batum. His points production is forecast between 15.5 and 16.2 versus a scoring prop of 14.5 O/U.

There’s a much higher ceiling for OKC’s 7-footer, with these numbers tempered by his reduced action in the Thunder’s blowouts. Holmgren dropped 22 points in his last matchup with L.A. in December, and the Clippers still had Ivica Zubac.

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