Why spend Thanksgiving Eve at a crowded bar when you can stay at home and bet on the Sixers and the Flyers?

Ok, it’s not exactly the most enticing proposition given the state of both teams, especially because they’re both underdogs on Wednesday night.

The Tyrese Maxey and Jared McCain Show will be on display against the Houston Rockets at the Wells Fargo Center, while the MichkovMania World Tour hits Nashville.

 

Sixers (+5) vs. Houston (Over/Under 219) 

Not only are the Sixers one of the worst teams in the NBA right now, they have the worst record against the spread.


The Sixers are 4-12 ATS. The Wizards are the only other team in the NBA with four wins ATS. Every other team has covered at least six times.

You want the good news? Three of those four covers came as an underdog of 7.5 or more points. In fact, the Sixers are 3-1 ATS when they’re an underdog of more than five points this season, so let’s root for that number to get up to 6 or 7!

Meanwhile, Houston is 13-6 ATS and 8-1 ATS in the last nine games.

It’s also worth noting that the Rockets are on the second leg of a back-to-back and went into overtime in the NBA Cup against Minnesota on Tuesday night.

Houston is 1-3 straight up on the second leg of back-to-backs this season. The Rockets are 2-2 ATS and 4-0 to the under on those second legs.

So there’s at least one trend in the Sixers’ favor, and hell who knows, McCain and Maxey could go off for 60-70 combined points and lead the Sixers to a win. McCain’s also due for a bounce back after shooting just 3-for-15 from the field and 2-for-11 from three-point range on Sunday.

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Flyers (+150) at Nashville (Over/Under 6)

Here’s the other bit of good news for Wednesday night.

The Nashville Predators are one of the NHL’s most disappointing teams.

Despite landing Steven Stamkos and Jonathan Marchessault in the offseason, the Preds are 7-12-3 with the second-worst point total in the Western Conference.

Nashville did win three of its last four home games, but that’s not a great sample size to go off since two of those games happened at the start of November.

As for the Flyers, they just keep playing close games.

They have been to overtime six times in the last nine games and played in another one-goal game during that run.

Both teams give up over three goals per game, but that doesn’t mean make an immediate bet on the over since Nashville averages 2.36 goals per game.