The Los Angeles Clippers will be fighting for their lives on Thursday night, trying to avoid elimination and force a Game 7 against the Nuggets. The Clippers are 6.5-point favorites for this one on DraftKings Sportsbook, with the total set at 212.
L.A. will need all of their best players, including James Harden, to show out in order to extend the series. Here’s my favorite prop bet for Harden on DraftKings Sportsbook for Nuggets vs. Clippers Game 6, which tips off at 10 pm ET.
Best James Harden prop bets on DraftKings Sportsbook
As boring as it is to take a star player’s under in points, I will be doing that on Thursday night. I like Harden to go under his 20.5 points total, as he has in four of the five games in this series.
In Game 1, he dropped 32 points, going 11-of-22 from the field. I don’t know what has changed since then, but he has averaged just under 13 shot attempts per game in the four contests since. Due to the lower volume, he has also gone under the 20.5 point total in each of the four games.
In Game 2, he was much less effective, going 7-of-17 for 18 points. He followed that up with 20 points on 6-of-14 shooting in Game 3, before adding 15 points in another sub-50% shooting performance in Game 5.
Harden is coming off his worst scoring performance of the series, going 3-of-9 from the field for 11 points in the Game 5 loss. Although you would expect him to take on a bigger role with the series on the line, The Beard could take a different approach to Game 6 as a facilitator.
Even though it’s a relatively low number for a player of his quality, I will hop on the under train before it’s too late. Ultimately, I think he will go under this total for the fifth consecutive game.
