NBA Multi bet of the Weekend | Feb 22

We hit two out of three once again yesterday, with Stephon Castle failing to hit the 15-point mark and thus denying us a clean sweep for the second day in a row. But four out of six for the week ain’t bad and has us comfortably in the positive, and if we can hit on our weekend multi it will round out a really nice week. There are plenty of games to choose from on Saturday, with no less than 18 teams taking to the floor across a nine-game slate. Take a look at the three bets which make up our NBA multi for the weekend below.

Saturday 22nd of February, 11am AEDT, Capital One Arena

The Bucks have not had the season that they would have wanted to date and didn’t exactly head into the All-Star break riding a wave of momentum, but they should be much more comfortable favourites for this game than what betting sites have them pegged as. After all, they are playing the Wizards, clearly the worst team in the league and one which probably got even worse in the short-term after trading Kyle Kuzma to the Bucks themselves, in exchange the perennially unavailable Khris Middleton. In Kuzma’s absence, his old team has gone 1-5, though that’s not exactly because he isn’t there – they won in his last couple of games with the team, but prior to that lost a whopping 16 in a row, and generally by a big margin. The Bucks have been struggling a little, with injuries to both Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard both playing a huge role, but they returned for the first game back from the All-Star break and the Bucks went on to record an impressive six-point win over a good team in the Clippers – and that with Giannis playing only 23 minutes as he operated under a minutes restriction. There are few teams in the league who shouldn’t be beating the Wizards pretty easily, and for all their problems, the Bucks are not one of them. The Wiz have lost an incredible 16 of their last 23 games by double figure margins, and Milwaukee has beaten them by at least 10 points in both of the two games the sides have played against one another so far this season. This line should be in double figures rather than the 6.5 points it has been set at, and rather than simply taking that line we are going to look to start off the multi with a little bit of value, opting for the Bucks to beat the Wizards by 11 points or more.

Saturday 22nd of February, 12.30pm AEDT, Frost Bank Center

Jalen Duren has not had a particularly good season, with the talented third-year big man failing to take the step forward which was expected of him. In fact, he has gone in the other direction, dropping from 13.8 points and 11.6 boards last season down to 10.8 and 10.2 in 2024-25. In the few games prior to the All-Star break, however, things begun to turn around. Duren was scoring more, rebounding a lot more, and most notably of all, passing the ball with great court awareness for a big. Duren averages just 2.5 assists on the season, but prior to the break he had at least 5 assists in four consecutive games. Twice he did that in relatively limited minutes, with 7 dimes in 20 minutes against the Sixers and then 5 in 23 minutes against the Bulls. NBA betting sites have lifted his assist line slightly as a result, but even so, he is at comfortably better than even money to have at least 4 once again in this game with the Spurs. As mentioned he has done that in his last four games – in fact he’s got to 5 in all those games – and though he didn’t have many in the two games before that, he showed his passing ability in the prior couple of games with 4 and 5 in those, too. In all, Duren has now hit 4 assists in six of his last eight games and his last four, so at $2.40 with PlayUp he looks like good value to kick off our multi.

Saturday 22nd of February, 1.30pm AEDT, Toyota Center

Naz Reid has been showing his talents off the Minnesota bench for some time now, but a Julius Randle injury has cleared the way for him to join the starting lineup and he has unsurprisingly grabbed the opportunity with both hands. The 25-year-old averages 14.5 points for the year, but he joined the starting lineup eight games ago and has been dropping in over 21 a night over the past seven. That average is a little skewed, too, because there was a 10-point game thrown in there against the Cavs. Most nights, he has been getting to 20 points and often with ease, hitting that number in five of his last seven games. With Randle still out for this game, Reid will once again start and get more minutes than usual, so betting agencies have of course adjusted his line up quite significantly as a result. But based on his performances of late, it’s still not enough. Reid is at basically even money to score 20 points, which as mentioned he has done in five of his last seven games in this new role, including a 27-point effort in the Wolves’ most recent game against the Thunder. He has taken at least 16 shots in all of those seven games with the exception of the one in which he had just 10 points, and with close to 20 shots likely again in this one he looks like a much better than 50/50 chance to hit at least 20 points once again, even against a good defensive team in Houston.