{"id":9653,"date":"2010-10-26T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=9653"},"modified":"2010-10-26T02:29:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T07:29:50","slug":"nba-betting-oklahoma-city-thunder-player-prop-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-betting-oklahoma-city-thunder-player-prop-bets-9653\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting: Oklahoma City Thunder Player Prop Bets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Durant is good, but is he 31+ ppg good?<\/figcaption><\/figure>Oklahoma City shocked the NBA world last year by winning 50 games, and then subsequently pushing the Lakers to a rebound away from a game 7.\u00a0 Durant led the league in scoring, Westbrook emerged as a leader, and Jeff Green continued to improve.\u00a0 The Thunder are the “feel good” exciting story of the league and while last year they managed to fly under the radar for most of the year, this year the league has taken notice of the Thunder as one of the premier teams to be reckoned with.\u00a0 This article will look at the prop bets for Durant & crew.
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\nKevin Durant Over\/Under 31.0 ppg<\/strong><\/p>\n

WOW.\u00a0 This one while tantalizing to bet on, is going to be very tough to call.\u00a0 He managed 30 a game last year, and is only getting better, but to exceed 31 a game would be quite a feat.\u00a0 The only guy to do it in recent times is Kobe Bryant. As much as I would like to say over on this one, I’m not sure I can.\u00a0 Yet at the same time, he has all the talent to average 33 a game.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I stay clear of this bet.<\/p>\n

Kevin Durant Over\/Under 7.3 rpg<\/strong><\/p>\n

OVER.\u00a0 He was at 7.6 last season, and he knows he is going to be counted on again to get a lot of rebounds.\u00a0 His lanky 6’10 frame and 7′ wingspan make it easy for him to sneak in for rebounds.\u00a0 I think he averages 8.0 rpg this year, making this an easy ‘over.’<\/p>\n

Kevin Durant Over\/Under 3.0 apg<\/strong><\/p>\n

OVER.\u00a0 He was at 2.8 last year, and this year he’ll have the ball in his hands all the time, and he has an increase impetus to create for his teammates.\u00a0 He should be slightly over 3.0 apg this year, if not at 3.5.\u00a0 He knows creating for others is the next step in making him the premier player in the league.
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\nRussell Westbrook Over\/Under 16.5 ppg<\/strong><\/p>\n

OVER.\u00a0 In his first two seasons in the league, he averaged 16.9 both years.\u00a0 And Westbrook, like the rest of the young Thunder, is still improving.\u00a0 I see Westbrook at about 18.0 ppg this year, if not more.\u00a0 Again, I reference the “third year breakout” rule as a reason here, and believe his continued improvement should make him a better scorer this year.<\/p>\n

Jeff Green Over\/Under 16.5 ppg<\/strong><\/p>\n

UNDER.\u00a0 He has yet to average this many points in his career, and last year was a down year from his second year in the league.\u00a0 While Green is a good prospect and is capable of scoring 16.5 ppg, I think he is much closer to 15 ppg, as he is still the third option on offense.\u00a0 Even with teams keying in on Durant, I still don’t think Green averages 1.8 more points a game than last season.
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\nJeff Green Over\/Under 6.5 rpg<\/strong><\/p>\n

Too close to call.\u00a0 In 08-09 he was right at 6.5 a game, and was at 5.8 last year.\u00a0 He’s a bit undersized to be a power forward and will have to improve his box out skills in order to get more rebounds a game.\u00a0 While I would go under if anything, I still don’t think this is a good bet.<\/p>\n

James Harden Over\/Under 11.0 ppg<\/strong><\/p>\n

OVER.\u00a0 Last season, in only 22 minutes a game, he managed 9.9 ppg.\u00a0 His PER-36 would put him at 15.6 ppg.\u00a0 While he won’t be seeing 36 minutes a night, splitting time with Sefolosha, he should manage to get about 12 a game this year, if not 14.\u00a0 This is a pretty good ‘over’ bet.<\/p>\n

Did you know you can compare odds for all the basketball games on our NBA lines page?\u00a0 A great tool for the sports bettor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City shocked the NBA world last year by winning 50 games, and then subsequently pushing the Lakers to a rebound away from a game 7.\u00a0 Durant led the league in scoring, Westbrook emerged as a leader, and Jeff Green continued to improve.\u00a0 The Thunder are the “feel good” exciting story of the league and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[3595,3301,1193,1828,399,3298],"class_list":["post-9653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba-handicapping","tag-james-harden","tag-jeff-green","tag-kevin-durant","tag-nba-betting","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-russell-westbrook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9925,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions\/9925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}