Keagan Smith details his best NBA player prop bets on DraftKings Sportsbook for Tuesday’s game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Houston Rockets.

No James Harden? No problem. The Los Angeles Clippers blew up much of their roster at the trade deadline by shipping away their star point guard along with Ivica Zubac, but they’re now coming off back-to-back wins ahead of tonight’s game. They head to Space City to take on the Houston Rockets, who have struggled to find much momentum as of late but do still have all the makings of a postseason contender.

On DraftKings Sportsbook, Houston is a 7.5-point home favorite with -290 odds to win on the Moneyline. The game total is set quite low at just 212.5 combined points.

Here are the top Clippers vs. Rockets prop bets on DraftKings Sportsbook for this matchup.

Best Clippers vs. Rockets player prop bets

Alperen Sengun over 9.5 rebounds (-108)

One of the most high-profile snubs of the race for the All-Star Game, Alperen Sengun did manage to get his appearance locked in as a replacement for an injured Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. That he didn’t make it in the initial process is a little bit surprising given season-long averages of 20.8 points, 9.4 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 2.4 stocks per game, leading a contending Rockets squad in boards, dimes and steals. Still, he’ll now get his chance to compete in Los Angeles when the All-Star break rolls around.

Sengun’s scoring has taken a downtick over the last couple of weeks with just two outings of 20 points or more across his last 10 contests. However, he’s still hit the boards hard recently with outings of 12, 16, 14, 13, and 10 rebounds over his last seven games. The upside in that prop market is pretty clear, especially with the Clippers trading away their starting center (and one of the NBA’s top rebounders) last week. Now, an aging Brook Lopez starts at big man for Los Angeles, and even this jumbo-adjacent lineup with John Collins, Derrick Jones Jr. and Kawhi Leonard was beaten on the glass in its last two games by the Kings and Timberwolves. The trend should continue tonight, setting up Sengun to go over 9.5 rebounds for the 24th time in 45 contests this season.

John Collins over 1.5 made threes (+137)

With Harden now shipped off to Cleveland (and looking quite good in his debut contests), the Clippers are leaning heavily on Leonard to create offense. However, other players will need to step up as well, paving the way for an uptick in responsibilities for a few other names. John Collins has quietly looked quite good this season in his first year in Los Angeles, producing 13.8 PPG while shooting 56.6% from the field and 44.1% from three. He’s no superstar, but he’s clearly a productive player and has also shot quite well as of late. Collins has now made multiple three-pointers in six of his last 10 outings, and while the volume isn’t always the highest, he does have an elite efficiency mark from downtown.

While the Rockets do boast one of the NBA’s top defenses in most statistical categories, Leonard will surely command most of the attention from Houston’s wing defenders. He comes off a 41-point outing and has played at an MVP level this season, the gravity of which will help his teammates get better looks from beyond the arc. Someone else will have to take some shots tonight, in which case Collins is a better bet to connect from beyond the arc than, say, Lopez or the newly-acquired Bennedict Mathurin. Even with the game total set as low as it is and both teams towards the bottom of the league in pace, I still quite like Collins to record multiple makes from distance.