Best NBA Player Props Today for April 9: Rockets nix this Sixer

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There are only four days remaining in the NBA regular season. Enjoy them.

Sure, we wine and moan about the half-assed efforts, mixed motivations, and full-on tanking during the home stretch, but with that chaos comes edges.

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Soon enough, we’ll only have a handful of postseason games to pick from each day, and those odds will be far less forgiving than these final days of the schedule.

I make the most of this scattered late-season slate with my best NBA player props and NBA picks below.

Best NBA player props today

Player

Pick

R.J. Barrett

Over 3.5 assists

+120

Joel Embiid

Under 28.5 points

-115

Mikal Bridges

Over 12.5 points

+100

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Prop #1: R.J. Barrett Over 3.5 assists

+120 at bet365

The Toronto Raptors host the Miami Heat for the second time in three days tonight. Toronto is clinging to the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference and needs another impressive win, following Tuesday’s 121-95 squash.

R.J. Barrett was one of five Raptors to score in double figures, but Thursday’s prop pick singles out his playmaking.

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The small forward finished with only two assists in that last meeting, marking just the third time in the past nine games Barrett hasn’t dished out four or more assists.

He and others had to pick up the ball-handling slack left by Immanuel Quickley’s recent injury. Quickley returned Tuesday but logged limited minutes, so Toronto still needs more playmaking from the likes of Barrett.

He registered seven potential assists against Miami last time out and averaged 6.6 potential dimes over the previous nine outings. The Heat have nosedived down the defensive rankings in recent months and have allowed 28.6 assists per game since the All-Star break (22nd).

Assist projections for Barrett all sit north of the 3.5 O/U, with the majority of models at four dimes with a ceiling flirting with five.

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Prop #2: Joel Embiid Under 28.5 points

-115 at bet365

There’s nothing like fading a star player in a must-win game to get the blood pumping.

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Publish date : 2026-04-09 15:07:00

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