November 14 NBA Player Props – Sunday Best Bets Including Bulls vs Clippers, Lakers vs Spurs

• Both Los Angeles teams are in action on Sunday, November, 14th
• There’s a rematch of last season’s Eastern Conference Finals as the Milwaukee Bucks face the Atlanta Hawks
• Read below for Sunday’s player props and best bets

The San Antonio Spurs are at Staples Center to take on the Los Angeles Lakers in the first game of Sunday’s NBA schedule. They are followed by the Milwaukee Bucks and Atlanta Hawks before the Brooklyn Nets matchup with the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Golden State Warriors head to Charlotte to face the Hornets.

The 8-3 Suns continue their favorable schedule against the Rockets. Phoenix is once again heavily favored. Yet to hit their stride, the Blazers face the challenging task of a trip to Denver before the Bulls play the next leg of their gruelling roadtrip against the Clippers.

NBA Player Props – November 14

Odds as of Nov 14 at FanDuel

Spurs Keep Westbrook Quiet

The San Antonio Spurs might not be a playoff team, but they are still a tough opponent. Gregg Popovich typically has his team playing good defense – they rank 12th in defensive rating and 13th in adjusted defensive shot quality. While the offense has its issues, and they are just 4-8 on the young season, these Spurs are an above-average defensive team, and they have some great defenders on the perimeter.

Russell Westbrook

8 points
1-13 FG
6 assists
6 turnovers
29 minutes

Game salary: 539K

In a game with no LeBron and an early AD exit, Westbrook gave the Lakers NOTHING. pic.twitter.com/SRLFmtrpfJ

— Micah Adams (@MAdamsStatGuy) November 7, 2021

That brings us to Russell Westbrook. Much has been made of Westbrook’s up and down start (which is putting it nicely) in Los Angeles. He’s coming off an historically bad -32 in the loss to Minnesota, and he’s shooting under 43% from the field. A month into the campaign, it’s his least efficient scoring campaign since his rookie year.

Westbrook is still taking and missing a lot of jumpers. The lane is often clogged. He’s always been at his best in transition, and that element is exaggerated on this Lakers team. Unfortunately for the former MVP, San Antonio is the best transition defense in the NBA, and they have an All-NBA defender in Dejounte Murray who has the instincts, athleticism and length to make Westbrook’s life difficult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8rETRNf4E

It was a near miss with exactly 20 points against the Timberwolves, but Westbrook has gone over 20.5 just once in his last four games. The Spurs are a challenging matchup for him. It looks set to be another frustrating night for the former MVP, who has scored 21 or more only four times in his 13 games this season.

• Pick: Russell Westbrook under 20.5 points (-114)

CJ Takes Over Without Dame

Since the start of last season, CJ McCollum’s usage rate is 31.5% when he’s on the floor without Damian Lillard. That’s a higher mark than Nikola Jokic and Anthony Edwards are recording in 2021-22. Lillard is out on Sunday with an abdominal injury, leaving McCollum to run the offense and carry the majority of the scoring burden.

Damian Lillard (lower abdominal tendinopathy) is OUT for Sunday's game versus the Nuggets in Denver.

— Casey Holdahl (@CHold) November 13, 2021

McCollum’s efficiency drops off in those minutes, with his true shooting slipping below 49%, and he’s at a career low by that metric on the season. This matchup is potentially a positive one for the former Lehigh guard, however, as the Nuggets rank in the bottom half of the league in adjusted defensive shot quality despite owning the second-best defensive rating in the Association.

McCollum took 21 shots in the win over Houston last time out. That was his most since Halloween. He could easily get into the mid-twenties in shot attempts with no Lillard.

Few things here. One I love the design of the stagger for CJ McCollum, defense has to chase and that legit puts you in position to get screened. Nance at the 5 is something Portland has to explore. And this is the difference if defenses start putting 2 on the ball vs. CJ. pic.twitter.com/yIQrVKKXhF

— Steve Jones Jr. (@stevejones20) November 13, 2021

Despite not scoring more than 18 in his last four games, and only scoring 24 or more five times in 13 games, the over is a good bet on Sunday night. McCollum has torched the Nuggets in the past, and there are weak points in Denver’s perimeter defense to exploit.

• Pick: CJ McCollum over 23.5 points (-110)