2024 NBA bets, lines and stats for Sunday - ESPN

The NBA will take Monday off, with no games scheduled on the night of the NCAA men's basketball championship game. As such, we've got a huge slate on Sunday with a whopping 13 games and 26 of 30 teams in action. The NBA season has only a week remaining, and fully half the league is still battling for playoffs positioning. As such, there should be a nice mix of motivated teams on Sunday, and even individuals on teams headed for the lottery can be motivated to finish their season strong. So, I'm looking for some big performances on Sunday. Starting with:

Devin Booker over 26.5 points (-120). Booker has detonated in three straight games against the Pelicans, twice this season and once last. In their last matchup last season, Booker made 21 of 35 field goal attempts on his way to 58 points. In January of this season, Booker made 18 of 30 field goal attempts on his way to 52 points. Just last week, Booker made 19 of 28 field goal attempts on his way to 52 points. In all, he is averaging 54.0 PPG the past three times he's faced the Pelicans, so I am taking the over on his 26.5 point line for Sunday.

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LA Clippers -3.5 over Cleveland Cavaliers (-110). The Clippers seem to be righting the ship after struggling for a few weeks, having won five of their past six games including a big one over Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets. The Cavaliers enter Sunday on the opposite energy, having gotten blown out in three of their past four games, including a 29-point loss to those same Nuggets. Playing at home, and needing a win to hold off the hard-charging Mavericks to hold onto the fourth seed and home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs, I look for the Clippers to have