{"id":682237,"date":"2026-03-27T14:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/682237\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:36:34","slug":"best-nba-bets-for-thursday-march-26-lamelo-ball-desmond-bane-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/682237\/","title":{"rendered":"Best NBA Bets for Thursday, March 26 \u2014 LaMelo Ball & Desmond Bane Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Find the best NBA bets for Thursday’s three-game slate, including a LaMelo Ball points under against the Knicks and a Desmond Bane three-pointer over against the Kings, with detailed analysis and odds.<\/p>\n

Updated on March 26, 2026 5:14PM EST<\/p>\n

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Updated on March 26, 2026 5:14PM EST<\/p>\n

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Looking for the best bets for Thursday’s slate in the NBA? RotoWire has you covered with several picks for this set of games.<\/p>\n

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Best NBA Bets Today (Thursday, March 26)LaMelo Ball<\/a> under 20.5 points (-121) vs. New York Knicks<\/p>\n

DraftKings, 3:26 PM ET<\/p>\n

Alex Barutha: Ball is averaging 21.5 points this month, so even just on the surface, I like him to go under based on a tough defensive matchup. In two prior matchups against the Knicks, he’s averaged 22.5 points in 32.0 minutes, but he’s not playing that many minutes regularly at this point, averaging 27.1 in March. Over the past 10 games, the Knicks are allowing the fewest opponent points (104), and have allowed just three performances of 26 points or more to guards in the past 30 days — those being Luka Doncic<\/a> (35), Bennedict Mathurin<\/a> (28) and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> (26).<\/p>\n

Desmond Bane<\/a> over 2.5 made threes (+158) vs. Sacramento Kings<\/p>\n

FanDuel, 3:36 PM ET<\/p>\n

Alex Barutha: Bane is making 1.7 threes in March at 37%, notably turning down his volume compared to the prior months. Still, this is a good opportunity for him to exceed his average at significant plus-money. Over the past 10 games, the Kings are allowing the fourth-most threes per game (14.6). In one prior matchup against the Kings, Bane took five triples and hit three.<\/p>\n

Paolo Banchero over 24.5 PTS (-120) vs. Sacramento Kings<\/p>\n

HardRock Bet, 5:10 PM ET<\/p>\n

Nick Whalen: This is low-hanging fruit, but I’m going to keep riding the Banchero train coming off of back-to-back 39 and 36-point efforts. The Magic are still down a few key pieces, and while they\u00a0should\u00a0be able to take care of business at home against the Kings, Orlando has had some trouble against lesser opponents of late. Regardless, the Magic will continue to lean heavily on Banchero, who’s taken 46 shots and 27 free throws over the last two games alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Find the best NBA bets for Thursday’s three-game slate, including a LaMelo Ball points under against the Knicks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,80042,6,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-682237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-minor-league-stats","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116301647899927889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}