NBA Best Odds This Week: April 7-13

We’ve finally made it to the final week of the 2024-25 NBA season, and after a quiet two-game slate on Monday as the National Championship game played out in San Antonio, the NBA schedule ramps up in the final stanza with a 10-game Tuesday night schedule. 

Let’s get into all the Tuesday action and preview the rest of the week as the 2025 NBA Playoff field is finally finalized.

Note: Odds were correct at the time of writing.

NBA Odds This Week

Tuesday Night in the NBA has a stacked 10-game schedule featuring three marquee matchups, so there is plenty of opportunity to squeeze a bit more juice out of the NBA season.

Here’s a look at all the betting odds for tonight’s action.

Matchup	Betting Line	Moneyline	Total
Hawks at Magic	Magic (-4)	Hawks (+148) Magic (-176)	225
Grizzlies at Hornets	Grizzlies (-14)	Grizzlies (-1000) Hornets (+660)	230
Wizards at Pacers	Pacers (-18.5)	Wizards (+1100) Pacers (-2200)	238.5
Bulls at Cavaliers	Cavaliers (-11.5)	Bulls (+440) Cavaliers (-590)	239.5
Celtics at Knicks	Celtics (-2)	Celtics (-118) Knicks (+100)	221
Pelicans at Nets	Nets (-2)	Pelicans (+116) Nets (-136)	213.5
T’Wolves at Bucks	T’Wolves (-4)	T’Wolves (-164) Bucks (+138)	222
Lakers at Thunder	Thunder (-14)	Lakers (+640) Thunder (-950)	225.5
Warriors at Suns	Warriors (-8)	Warriors (-320) Suns (+260)	227.5
Spurs at Clippers	Clippers (-12.5)	Spurs (+530) Clippers (-750)	226.5

NBA Matchups to Watch

While the bulk of the NBA playoff field has already been determined, there is still quite a bit at stake as the NBA season draws to a close.

Most notably, the final playoff positioning in the Western Conference where seven of the 10 teams in the Western Conference playoff field can still finish as the 3rd seed.

Here’s a look at the bigger matchups of the last week of the season, headlined by a game taking place on Tuesday night.

Celtics at Knicks (-2) at FanDuel – April 8

With the Celtics and Knicks locked into the No. 2 and No. 3 seed respectively, Tuesday’s matchup could very well be a preview of the Eastern Conference Semifinals should each team take cake of business in their opening playoff series a few weeks from now. 

The Knicks have played well of late, winning seven of their last 10 games, however, they are a team in desperate need of a win over a winning team as they have only won one of their past seven games against teams with a winning record this season. 

It also doesn’t help that the Knicks arch nemesis has had their number of late, winning seven of the last eight games in this series including their last three trips to the Garden. 

The Celtics enter Tuesday’s contest on a 11-1 surge of their own as they are rounding into form before they embark on defending their title. 

Lakers at Mavericks (+5.5) at FanDuel – April 9

Luka Doncic returns to Dallas for the first time since being traded to the Lakers in what will surely be the most talked about game of the week on the networks that are obsessed with this sort of thing.

However, the matchup not only will spawn countless questionable Stephen A. Smith takes, but it should answer a lot of questions about where both teams stand as they approach the playoffs.

The Mavs have been ravaged by injury since the fateful Luka deal went down, but miraculously have healed up in time to be a very dangerous team for someone in the play-in tournament.

After back-to-back blowout losses at the hands of the Clippers, they can use a strong performance against the Lakers to turn things around before next week’s play-in round. 

The Lakers will be coming off of their second game against the Thunder in three nights and will at worst have earned a split against the best team in the NBA, but you know Luka Doncic will be frothing at the mouth to get his revenge against a front office and coach he believes slighted him as he was shockingly sent packing his bags. 

If you can’t wait for Wednesday to come around, sportsbooks have already opened this game up on the board with the Lakers as 5.5-point road favorites. 

Clippers at Warriors (Line TBD) – April 13

The Clippers and Warriors enter the final week of the season in a four-way tie in the Western Conference with a 46-32 record, so this game could have enormous playoff seeding implications to close out the year.

While either of these teams would be favored over the Kings and Mavs in the Play-In Round, that is not a route either of them would like to go in either. 

There are other matchups in the West on Sunday as the league ends the season that will also have playoff seeding implications, but this is the one that looms largest as the playoffs draw near. 

NBA Best Bets This Week – April 7-13

Alright, it’s the last week of the season so you know we have to close it out with our best bets of the week. Here’s what we have circled on our betting cards for tonight’s action. 

Celtics (-118 ML) at Knicks – FanDuel – April 8

At some point you have to think the Knicks will break through and beat a team of note, but I don’t think that point is happening on Tuesday. 

This is a direct fade of the Knicks ability to beat good teams and most importantly to this matchup, finding a way to beat a Celtics team that just flat out has their number.

I think this line being this short is more of a gift than a trap, and I’m going to back the Celtics to continue their hot play just in time for the postseason. 

Betting Trend of Note: The Celtics are an NBA best 32-7 on the road this season, with eight straight wins away from Boston. 

Warriors (-8) at Suns – FanDuel – April 8

Gracefully for Suns fans, their season is almost over, and the Kevin Durant – Bradley Beal – Devin Booker ‘Big 3’ experiment figures to be going with it.

Phoenix still has a faint hope of climbing into the final Play-In Spot in the West, but needs to win out and have Dallas pull a Duke Blue Devils-esque meltdown to sneak into the field.  

The more likely outcome is that the Warriors are going to come into this game with a bad taste in their mouth after a 10-point home loss against the Rockets on Sunday, and Steph Curry is going to want to vanquish his 3 point outing in that loss by dropping fire and fury over the hapless Suns defense. 

Give me the Dubs to land the road win in comfortable fashion and to cover the number in the desert. 

Betting Trend of Note: The Suns are 3-7 ATS in their last 10 games and are just 14-23-1 ATS on their home floor this season.