Fantasy basketball tips and NBA betting picks for Tuesday

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What you request to cognize for Tuesday's games

Rookie Vibes: Jaden Ivey has 53 points connected 50% shooting with 33 rebounds-plus-assists done 3 vocation games, a adjacent identical stat enactment to what 2022 Rookie of the Year Scottie Barnes produced successful his archetypal 3 contests (54 points connected 52% shooting with 35 rebounds-plus-assists). Barnes went connected to mean 26.3 PRA, a fig that books person yet to attack erstwhile it comes to pricing Ivey this season. Even better? The Raptors were a bottom-six gait squad past play portion the Pistons are catering much to Ivey and owned a top-six gait done 3 games.

Fade The Points: The Pelicans person scored northbound of 120 points successful each of their archetypal 3 games this play and person been led successful scoring by a antithetic subordinate successful each of those games. So fastener successful the over, right? Wrong. They fertile extracurricular the top-15 successful pace, hinting that their scoring is coming connected precocious level ratio that figures to beryllium hard to prolong against a Mavs defence that was top-10 past play and is again frankincense acold this season.

Bringing The Wood: The Mavericks person wasted precisely zero clip getting Christian Wood worked into a precocious usage relation and there's small crushed to deliberation it changes immoderate clip soon. In 49 minutes this season, he's taken 27 shots, 24 escaped throws, scored 50 points and pulled down 20 boards. He's coming disconnected the seat and that is suppressing his DFS terms tag and immoderate of his subordinate props ... instrumentality advantage, those things won't past long.

Shallow Slate: After a engaged archetypal week of NBA action, Tuesday offers a airy four-game slate. These smaller slates tin really beryllium adjuvant for those looking to summation an borderline successful play phantasy formats, arsenic you tin effort to maximize games played via streaming portion your hostile mightiness conscionable nonstop retired a lighter lineup. For instance, the Clippers person ruled retired Paul George against the Thunder contiguous owed to a non-Covid illness. With George disconnected the court, Norman Powell's (75% available) violative stock is owed to jump. Marcus Morris is besides expected to miss the crippled owed to idiosyncratic reasons, shifting Robert Covington (87%) into a cardinal frontcourt role. For the Thunder, Josh Giddey and Shai-Gilgeous Alexander won't suit up owed to respective injuries, mounting up Tre Mann (95%) and Luguentz Dort (69%) arsenic bankable plug-and-play candidates.

-- Jim McCormick and Kyle Soppe

Game of the night

Golden State Warriors astatine Phoenix Suns
10 p.m. ET, Footprint Center, Phoenix, Arizona

Line: Warriors (-1.5)
Money line: Suns (-120), Warriors (+100)
Total: 225.5 points
BPI Projected Total: 231.3 points
BPI Win%: Suns (57.8%)

Ruled Out: Andre Iguodala (hip), Donte DiVincenzo (hamstring)
Note: BPI numbers factored successful players who are ruled retired but assumes questionable players volition play

Best bet: Devin Booker nether 4.5 assists. Booker notched 9 assists successful the play opener versus Dallas, but since past helium has assumed much of a shooting relation and deferred the passing duties to Chris Paul, who surpassed 11,000 vocation assists. Booker averaged 4.8 APG past season, but successful his 3 games against the Warriors helium fell abbreviated of 4 assists successful each 1 of them, totaling six assists. Perhaps the Warriors cognize however to support him. -- Eric Karabell

Breaking down the remainder of the slate

Detroit Pistons astatine Washington Wizards
7 p.m. ET, Capital One Arena, Washington, Washington D.C.

Line: Wizards (-5.5)
Money line: Wizards (-225), Pistons (+185)
Total: 221 points
BPI Projected Total: 220.3 points
BPI Win%: Wizards (76.2%)

Ruled Out: Alec Burks (foot)
Note: BPI numbers factored successful players who are ruled retired but assumes questionable players volition play

Fantasy Streamer: Isaiah Stewart (available successful 80.6% of leagues). has been a walking double-double done 3 games. He's averaging 11.0 PPG, 10.3 RPG, 2.0 APG and 1.0 SPG successful 28.7 MPG, and is coming disconnected an 11-point/16-board effort connected the 2nd fractional of a back-to-back connected Saturday. -Snellings

Best bet: Bojan Bogdanovic implicit 18.5 points. Bogdanovic leads the Pistons astatine 19.3 PPG, and portion helium scored "only" 18 points successful the astir caller game, that's due to the fact that helium uncharacteristically missed 11 of 16 tract extremity attempts. Bogdanovic won't miss that galore shots excessively often. He's shooting 48.8% from the tract this play and is among the leaders successful 3-point shooting. Washington surely isn't a notably beardown antiaircraft club. -- Karabell

Best bet: Kyle Kuzma implicit 25.5 full points + rebounds. Kuzma yet had a down effort successful his 3rd crippled of the season, struggling against the fantabulous and oversized Cavaliers beforehand line, but don't fto that unsighted you to the information that he's playing fantabulous shot to commencement the season. In his archetypal 2 games, helium went for 22 points and 13 rebounds, followed by 26 points and 6 rebounds. On Tuesday, he'll beryllium facing a Pistons squad that doesn't look overly funny successful playing defence and should beryllium capable to bounce backmost to the types of numbers helium produced successful the archetypal mates games. -- Snellings

Dallas Mavericks astatine New Orleans Pelicans

7:30 p.m. ET, Smoothie King Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

Line: Mavericks (-4.5)
Money line: Mavericks (-190), Pelicans (+158)
Total: 219 points
BPI Projected Total: 223.7 points
BPI Win%: Mavericks (58.5%)

Questionable: Herbert Jones (knee), Zion Williamson (hip)
Ruled Out: Brandon Ingram (concussion)
Note: BPI numbers factored successful players who are ruled retired but assumes questionable players volition play

Fantasy Streamer: Trey Murphy III hasn't started a crippled yet, but that whitethorn alteration soon with Zion Williamson (surprise!) and Brandon Ingram nursing injuries. Murphy scored 16 points and added 9 rebounds successful 2 of the archetypal 3 games, portion draining 9-of-15 3-pointers. He's earned much playing clip and figures to spot ample minutes astatine location against the Mavericks. -- Karabell

Best bet: Mavericks 1H -3. While the Mavs person divided their archetypal 2 games, that belies however ascendant they've been retired the gates successful some contests. The Mavs led the Suns by 22 points successful the archetypal fractional of the opener, earlier succumbing to a large 2nd fractional comeback. The Mavs besides jumped connected the Grizzlies retired the gate, and maintained it for a 41-point blowout. It's unclear however galore of the Pelicans' starters whitethorn beryllium connected Tuesday, and I look for the Mavs to get disconnected to different accelerated start. -- André Snellings

LA Clippers astatine Oklahoma City Thunder
8 p.m. ET, Paycom Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Line: Clippers (-9.5)
Money line: Clippers (-480), Thunder (+360)
Total: 214 points
BPI Projected Total: 221.1 points
BPI Win%: Clippers (70.6%)

Ruled Out: Paul George (illness), Marcus Morris Sr. (personal), Josh Giddey, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (hip)
Note: BPI numbers factored successful players who are ruled retired but assumes questionable players volition play