Top -nba betting picks for Thursday 5/1/25

It was always suitable that both series survived in game 6 because they were most competitive so far. The New York Knicks and Detroit Pistons looked practically inseparable in five games-a 21-0 run in game 1 in game 1 and the La Clipper and Denver Nuggets played three thrillers from their five games.

It is a playoff basketball; Of course, today's NBA campaign should be good. Here are my best bets for today's game 6 Draftking's sports bookWith two from every game.

Let's take a look at the full slate:

New York Knicks at Detroit Pistons, 7:30 p.m.
Denver Nuggets at La Clippers, 10 p.m.

Perhaps it is because I am influenced by the discourse around me because I live in New York City, but there is no logical reason why this Pistons team should end up in a series with seven games with the kinks. Cade Cunningham is brilliant – there is no bypass – but he also has average five sales per game. And in total, if you list the top five players in the series, four of them wear blue and orange. If not the small injuries that Jalen Brunson and Josh hard for a few critical minutes late in game 5, a route in which New York was exceeded with four points, both for Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart, the series could currently be over.

Detroit played closer to basketball in game 5 When the Knicks-Cunningham was effective on both sides of the ball, even if not efficient, Ausar Thompson scored 22 points and Dennis Schröder started 14 points from the bank and the game was still extremely tight. The most important player in the Knicks, Brunson, had his four -tied game of the season with a playing point, only turned four: 16 off the field, coughed four sales and started four fouls. Her second important important player, Karl-Anthony Towns, got into his typical evil difficulties and at the same time shot five against 14. Each of these players is too talented to avoid jumping back.

When he spoke of the tiny south paw, his fights in game 5 were a deviation and basically the first terrible playoff game he had in the last two seasons. In view of the fact that he scored 30 or more points in 11 of his 18 off -season games at this time -and in one of the games he did not do, he went late in the third quarter with a broken hand -to bring him and his team back on the track. The crowd in the Little Caesars Arena will not be friendly and he may not get the bad calls that he is used to -after all, during the New York game 4, he only tried to win two free throws -but Brunson lives from negativity.

JB Bickerstaff has thrown Thompson and Schröder to Brunson to almost the same, and both were fine; Brunson's shot nine for 22 when he was guarded by Thompson and 14-to-32 when he was guarded by Schröder. But that doesn't tell the whole story why he had to struggle in game 5. Nine of his 16 attempts at the field came with the next defender more than four feet away, including three of his four three -point attempts. During the regular season, he met 44.1% of his field goals and 34.1% of his three for such shots, and on Tuesday he only made three of his two and none of his three. He also only went to six in the limited area.

This series deserves absolutely a seventh game, even if the Thunder von Oklahoma City will have an almost insurmountable resting advantage over the team from this battle of wear. Three of the five games were immediate classics; Game 1 went into extra time, game 2 was set with only three points when Kawhi Leonard announced his return to the Terminator form, and game 4 was decided for an Aaron Gordon Summer Feschlag Dunk that we may never definitely know whether it should have counted at all. Game 5 was not a great look for LA, but it can certainly be confident that Russell Westbrook no longer scored 21 points this evening.

The legend of the playoff Jamal Murray only grew after a 43-point outbreak in game 5, in which he went 17-opposite-26 from the field and eight for 14 from beyond the arch. But there was nothing particularly outrageous, as the Clipperers guard him; He simply met six of his eight shots, in which one defender was less than four meters away, and 11 of his 18 shots with the next defender more than four feet, both considerable rise in the promotion of his markings during the regular season. The nuggets as a whole shot 51.5% of beyond the arch, and they should cool off, especially in front of a lot of intuiters.

This is more due to whether Jokić wants to record a triple double or not whether LA can stop him from getting there. So far he has three triple doubles in this series, which falls a rebound in game 1 and two templates in game 3. And the strong defense of Ivica Zubac, which is “limited” on 66 points, 30 assists, and nine sales at 25-for-51 shooting, is at Jokić when he is even longer against a game maker to have an outside change.

It's just about his teammates knocking off shots. So far, Jokić leads these playoffs in potential templates per game with a fairly wide lead – 20.0 per competition, 1.6 more than Cunningham – of the 23 players who have average five or more assists per game. So far, he has at least 1.5 assists per game on at least five different nuggets, but Michael Porter Jr. only shoots 16.7% inside the arch in passes from Jokić and Westbrook shoots only 29.4% from Deep. If one of these right ones, Jokić should have no problems collecting double -digit templates. He is also second in these playoffs in rebounds and rebound chances per game, and of the 19 players who have an average of eight or more boards per game, he is competitive at the ninth lowest speed.