The Brooklyn Nets (2-8) and New Orleans Pelicans (4-7) will face off in the NBA tonight. Tipoff is set for 8:00 p.m. ET from the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, La. The game will be broadcast live on YES.
The Pelicans are 4.5-point favorites over the Nets on the spread, with the over/under set at 228.5 total points. New Orleans is a 64-cent favorite to win outright, while Brooklyn is a 37-cent underdog to pull off the upset.
Let's get into my Nets vs. Pelicans predictions and NBA picks for Wednesday, November 11.
Nets vs Pelicans Prediction
- Nets vs Pelicans pick: Nets +4.5 (50 cents)
My Nets vs. Pelicans prediction is Brooklyn to cover the spread, with the best price currently available at Polymarket. Make sure to find the best odds by checking our live NBA odds page.
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If you’re not willing to back the Brooklyn Nets on the road as a less-than-two-possession underdog, are you even really alive?
The market power-rated line on this game is only Pelicans -3.1, which sounds a lot closer to correct.
I like the Pelicans; I think some things are working, and I believe they’ll be better by more than this against the Nets by the end of the season.
But the Pelicans are still probably not good enough to be more than a one-possession favorite over anyone in the league who isn’t Chicago or Sacramento.
The Nets are surprisingly decent at protecting the rim, but they give up a lot of threes. The Pelicans, however, are dead last in three-point rate and 26th in percentage.
The Pelicans don’t take the threes that the Nets will give them, and they don’t make them when they do take them.
Nets vs Pelicans Pick, Analysis
The Pelicans want to attack the rim where the Nets are actually good at defending.
Transition and turnovers are a problem; the Nets are 27th in turnover rate and the Pelicans are third in fast-break points per 100 possessions.
But I think Michael Porter Jr. and Julius Randle will be able to create enough offense to keep the Nets within striking distance.
The Nets just got clobbered by the Mavericks by over 30 points. Underdogs coming off a loss by more than 20 points are 12-9 ATS this season.
Pick: Nets +4.5 (50 cents)
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