Veterans Day Picks and Combos: NBA, NHL, College Basketball

Veterans Day loads up the holiday with two nationally televised NBA games on ESPN, a marquee college basketball matchup, and a two-game NHL slate on TNT. Prediction markets are leaning hard one way in Houston and much closer in New York, while a thin college basketball market shows just how under-the-radar Marquette at Michigan still is. Here’s the rundown for Wednesday, Nov. 11.

Cavaliers at Knicks (7 PM ET, ESPN): Odds, Injuries and the Back-To-Back

New York gets a quick rematch of a game it just won. The Knicks beat the Cavaliers 109-97 in Cleveland on Saturday, with Jalen Brunson scoring 31 points and handing out nine assists while Karl-Anthony Towns added 29 points and 13 rebounds. Four days later the Cavs head to Madison Square Garden looking for payback… except it’s the Knicks who are on the back half of a back-to-back, having hosted Milwaukee on Tuesday night.

Health is the other storyline. Jarrett Allen was in and out of the lineup much of the week with a right knee contusion before returning Monday against Charlotte, and Josh Hart has already missed multiple games with a sore ankle. Books aren’t fully in agreement on the number: Cleveland sits at +4.5 with a 221.5 total at some shops, while others have New York favored by a smaller 3.5. The prediction markets land close together: Knicks shares trade around 63 cents on Polymarket ($58.75K traded) and 62 cents on Kalshi, where volume is heavier at $93.5K.

Warriors at Rockets (9:30 PM ET, ESPN): An Eight-Game Win Streak Meets the Spread

Golden State opened the season 0-3 and hasn’t lost since. The Warriors have won eight straight, a run that puts them in the same company as the 1950-51 Boston Celtics as the only teams to follow an 0-3 start with a winning streak that long. Stephen Curry is the obvious reason why, averaging right around 30 points a night. None of that makes Golden State the favorite in Houston, though.

Polymarket has Houston at 68 cents to the Warriors’ 33 cents ($52.46K in volume), and Kalshi shows a slightly tighter 66-34 split, but with nearly $288K traded, making it by far the most active market of the night.

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College Basketball on Veterans Day: Marquette at Michigan and the National Games

The night’s best college basketball matchup sends Marquette to Ann Arbor to face defending national champion Michigan at Crisler Center (7 PM ET, FS1), the first leg of a home-and-home series between the two programs.

It’s early enough in the season that both markets are thin: $2.67K on Polymarket, $5.19K on Kalshi; but they agree on the shape of the game: Michigan’s a solid favorite, at 62 cents on Polymarket and 60 on Kalshi, to Marquette’s 39 and 40, respectively.

Elsewhere on the slate, Colgate visits St. John’s at 7 PM ET, Arkansas-Pine Bluff plays at UCLA with the game streaming on Peacock, and the holiday’s signature event, the Veterans Classic, sends Penn to Annapolis to face Navy on CBS Sports Network.

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NHL Doubleheader: What To Know

TNT carries a two-game NHL slate for the holiday. Tampa Bay visits Buffalo at 7 PM ET, followed by Utah’s trip to Las Vegas to face the Golden Knights at 9:30 PM ET. Both pairings sit near the top of their respective conferences early in the season, giving the network two games with real stakes rather than just a holiday time slot to fill.

Veterans Day Sports Schedule and How To Watch

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