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Play-In and Round One: 6 Games Friday and Saturday

Friday features two exciting play-in matchups, and on Saturday, four first-round series tip off. We've pulled together key data for the first six games, spotlighting one intriguing player prop to watch in each matchup. Plus, one baseball matchup with solid potential in today’s sleight of games. Lets get into it.

Play-In

Heats vs Hawks: Duncan Robinson, 1.5 Threes

Robinson logged just 17 minutes in the first play-in game, but still knocked down 2 of his 5 three-point attempts. Despite limited minutes, he's been efficient—hitting this prop in 61% of games this season where he played 20 minutes or fewer.

And his history against the Hawks is good this year - he has 11 threes in 28 attempts in three games against Atlanta this season.

Mavericks vs Grizzlies: Jaren Jackson Jr, 19.5 Points

Triple J’s history against Anthony Davis is what caught out eye here - dating back to last season, in his last three games against Davis, Jackson has games with 31, 29 and 25 points.

And this Mavs team, even with their variety of big men (Davis, Gafford, Lively) are still allowing 23.15 points per game to centers this season, and 24.12 points to power forwards, the two positions that Jackson occupies.

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NBA Round 1

Bucks vs Pacers: Benedict Mathurin, 5.5 Reb + Ast

This is a solid matchup for Mathurin. The Bucks allow 12.4 rebounds and assists per game to small forwards, 27th in the NBA, and Mathurin has gone over this 5.5 R&A line in 61% of his games this season.

He closed out this season going over this line in 6 of his last 10 games, averaging 7.7 rebounds and assists per game.

Clippers vs Nuggets: Norman Powell, 17.5 Points

Norman Powell had a slow finish after returning from injury, averaging just 17.2 points over his last twenty games—down from his season average of 21.8. But he’s been solid against Denver this season, which gives reason for optimism in this matchup.

He’s cleared this line in three of four games, and even in the one miss, he still dropped 16 points. Plus, the Nuggets rank second-worst in the league against shooting guards, giving up 24.3 points per game to the position.

Pistons vs Knicks: Karl-Anthony Towns, 34.5 Pts + Reb

In 3 games against Detroit this season, he’s averaged 35 points and rebounds. But the most attractive piece of data for KAT here is that he’s going to play massive minutes, and in games with 35 or more minutes this season, he’s averaging 41.2 points and rebounds, clearing this line 73% of the time.

KAT has averaged 37.2 points and rebounds per game this season, clearing this line in 63% of his games this season.

Timberwolves vs Lakers: Rudy Gobert, 10.5 Rebounds

This is the craziest head-to-head data I think I’ve ever seen on Props.Cash - so much green!

Head-to-head aside, the Lakers closed out their season giving up big rebounding games to plenty of centers:

• Donovan Clingan, 12 rebounds (April 13th)

• Isaiah Hartenstein, 11 rebounds (April 8th)

• Yves Messi, 11 rebounds (April 4th)

• Draymond Green, 11 rebounds (April 3rd)

They allow 15.46 rebounds per game to centers this season, 23rd in the NBA.

MLB

Bobby Witt Jr vs Reese Olson

Bobby Witt Jr has 13 plate appearances against Reese Olson, and in those plate appearances he’s racked up 6 hits, two of which left the yard.

He’s also been hitting the ball well to start the year, averaging 2.3 HRR per game this season, and 2.2 HRR in his last 5 games.

Can he stay hot tonight?!

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