The Oklahoma City Thunder and Philadelphia 76ers will face each other in the NBA regular season.
Tournament – NBA;
Date – 01.01.2023;
Kick-Off – 01:00 UK;
Venue – Paycom Center (18.203);
City – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #1 – Handicap (-3) for 76ers – 1.82.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #2 – Total Points Over 223 – 1.645.
The Philadelphia 76ers have to pull out a win from Oklahoma. James Harden and Joel Embiid are now in great form and playing some crazy basketball. The Pennsylvania team has had some bad luck in previous games, but that doesn’t mean it will always be so.
The Oklahoma City Thunder is doing all right on offense. The Thunder easily scored more than 120 points in their last 3 of 4 home games. With that in mind, we think this will be a productive meeting.
The Oklahoma City Thunder has been struggling mightily in recent games, so it’s no surprise that Mark Daigneault’s squad has won just one game against the San Antonio Spurs (130-114) in its last three games.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was consistently the Thunder’s best player in their last loss to the Charlotte Hornets, shooting 28 points.
At this point of the season, Oklahoma has 15 wins with 20 losses after 35 games played. They are in 11th position in their conference. The Thunder cannot win their last five games against the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have won four of their last five home games.
After eight straight games, the Philadelphia 76ers had already lost twice: to the Washington Wizards (111-116) and New Orleans Pelicans (116-1127).
Joel Embiid was traditionally the best player for the visitors with 37 points in the game against the Pelicans. Harden had 20 points and 10 assists.
We would hate to see Doc Rivers’ team fall back into a long losing streak. They are currently in fifth place in their conference and have a much stronger roster than their rival Oklahoma.
The Philadelphia Sixers are averaging 111.7 points per game this season.
In our opinion, the teams will take to the field with the following line-ups:
Oklahoma City Thunder: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander – Josh Giddey – Luguentz Dort – Jalen Williams – Mike Muscala.
Philadelphia 76ers: James Harden – De’Anthony Melton – Tobias Harris – P. J. Tucker – Joel Embiid.
Chet Holmgren (Out), Ousmane Dieng (Out), Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (Out) and Aleksej Pokusevski (Out) are listed as injured for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
There are no injured players for the Philadelphia 76ers.
The fixture will be played at Paycom Center (18.203) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
This starting whistle will sound on the 1st of December, 2023, at 01:00 UK Time.
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