2024-25 NBA Opening Night Picks, Predictions & Best Bets | Pickswise

Basketball is back! The 2024-25 NBA season gets started tonight with a couple of red-hot showdowns to get excited for. Up first, we have the reigning champion Boston Celtics taking on the title-contending New York Knicks at the TD Garden. The Celtics went 37-4 at home during the regular season in 2023-24, but the Knicks will look to prove they are a team to watch out for following the additions of Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges. That game is followed by the Minnesota Timberwolves, now with Julius Randle in their lineup, taking on the father-son duo of LeBron and Bronny James and the Los Angeles Lakers.

Here at Pickswise, we have everything you need to bet better on NBA Opening Night as well as throughout the entire season! We’ll have NBA picks on the side and total for all the big matchups, as well as NBA player prop bets and even NBA parlays every day! On top of that, you can lock in our best NBA futures bets to get even more bang for your buck. Let’s get into our NBA Opening Night predictions.

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NBA Picks

• New York Knicks vs Boston Celtics predictions — can the defending champs hit the ground running?
• Minnesota Timberwolves vs LA Lakers predictions — will LeBron and Bronny secure their first win together?

Best NBA player prop bets

• NBA Opening Night player prop picks — our props expert JutPicks went 73-54 on his picks last season!

NBA Opening Night Same Game Parlays

• Knicks vs Celtics Same Game Parlay — target these 4 plays for the season opener at +598 odds
• Timberwolves vs Lakers Same Game Parlay — our expert has picked out 3 props and combined them in a +748 SGP

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NBA Futures Predictions

• NBA Championship predictions and best bets — find out our longshot pick to win it all
• NBA MVP odds and picks — will Nikola Jokic win it all again or is there a new contender?
• NBA Win Total best bets — our expert has FIVE win total predictions to check out