Best NBA Tip Off Bets for Rockets v Thunder and Warriors v Lakers | Player Props Picks & Predictions
October 21, 2025 • 13 mins
The NBA season tips off with a bang as Terrell Furman Jr. returns for another edition of Fast Break Bets presented by BettingPros! In this opening night episode, Terrell dives into both marquee matchups — Houston Rockets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder and Golden State Warriors vs. Los Angeles Lakers — breaking down injuries, lineup shifts, and player prop value across the slate. With Fred VanVleet, LeBron James, and Jalen Williams (JDub) sidelined, new opportunities are opening for young stars like Amen Thompson and Austin Reaves. Terrell highlights key betting angles, offensive roles, and assist potential that could shape opening night profits for sharp bettors.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
3:23 - Amen Thompson
9:10 - Austin Reaves
11:40 Recap
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yeah, sir, We're back with another edition of Fast Break
Bets by Bettingburgh. You know me, no voice, no guys,
me really Phila Rod Torrell from in junior here at George, sir, it's.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Breaking news. The n b A is back to night.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We are back for another season of hoops. Get ready
for what more than likely is going to be an
emotional roller coaster ride the art of a new season.
We may or may not crown a new champion because
there's a good chance that the Oklahoma City Thunder can
(01:09):
repeat here. But we'll see things happen. It's hard, it's hard,
like do not let Lebron James and Steph Curry confuse you.
It is very very hard to repeat as champions. It's
very very hard to go back to the conference finals.
(01:29):
I mean to the NBA finals really hard. As much
as I love this okayc teams, things may not break right,
but it's cool, it's great.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I like them.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I think the Knicks could have a little bit of
a season this year. Let's see a lot of things
to sit here and look forward to a lot of things.
We've got two games on the slate here. Let me
give you two plays to start kick things off in
the NBA. But before I do that, I got to
make sure that I get us paid. Talking about hard
Rock Bet, because you can still go lock into hard
(02:05):
rock Bet and check out all the things they have
going on over there in the app. They have their
streaks which is heating up in the hard rock Bet
stats hub where you can find live odds to bet
on all of the streaks right now. In the NFL
and in the NBA. Like tonight, the Warriors have won
and covered the spread in seven straight games as a
(02:25):
road favorite against the Western Conference Oklahom City Thunder. I've
covered in six in a row at home against the
Western Conference. So hey, get over there, lock in use
the hard rock Bet app. If your new customers just
placed a five dollar bet, and if that five dollar
bet hits, not only will you get the winnings of
your five dollar bet, of course, but you will also
get eight hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets just
(02:48):
like that. Plus all week go on hard rock Bet,
we are giving away NBA parlay boost bonuses for the game.
You can get an NBA parlay boost to your NBA
all week. You can boost the same game portlay you
can boost SGP max.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You can do all of.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
That and get extra winning. So make sure you go
do that lock in heart rock bit, and I'll give
you a couple of plays that you might be able
to throw into that hard rock bit partay here just
in the second I'll definitely try to look out for you.
Hopefully they win, but make sure you go tap into
hard rock.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
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(03:43):
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Speaker 1 (03:49):
All right, let's get into the game's first game. Up
on the docket haven't given out a play in this
game yet. So about the Oklahoma City Thunder going on
the I mean sorry at home, Oklahoma City Thunder at
home going to battle the Houston Rockets. Rockets are catching
seven on the road to twenty seven and a half
(04:11):
is total little, I mean breaking news, breaking news. There
is an injury report in this game, because everybody in
the NBA is injured before the season starts for whatever reason,
(04:31):
like whatever reason, I just all these players are injured.
But we know Frevan Fleet is out for the season.
Deshaun Tate is listed out for this game, as said
Joe for the Oklahoma City Thunders out for this game. A. J.
Mitchell is not listed on the injury report, expected to
play in the game. Here we also have who else
(04:53):
was Jay Dubb? Jalen Williams. Jay Dubb, the starter. He
is out, He's not expected to miss extended time, but
he is not playing in this game. So they are
missing the Oklahoma City Thunder arguably is it even arguably?
It's not arguably. That's legit their second best player. Yeah,
(05:14):
that's Jada, like legit, their second best player. So they're
gonna be without their second best player. Here in this spot,
I'm really considering taking Rockets because I just think that
missing missing Ja Doug, You're so you're gonna go be
He's more than likely gonna go big with Isaiah Hartstein
(05:37):
and check Williams on the flour. I mean, not check Williams,
check Holgram. I'm putting all these names together. Check Houlgrim
on the floor. At the same time, I don't have
an officials starting report here for the Oklahoma City Thunder,
And that was a little bit of like, all right,
let me just go ahead and keep things slow. I
was very very close taking Rockets plus seven. I just
(05:57):
thought injury might be a little bit too much. And
the Rockets starting lineup is very very interesting. Look and
listen to the starting lineup that is said per Ime
Udoka is supposed to play on opening night, I mean Thompson,
Kevin Durant, Jabarismith Junior, Alfren Shangun and Steven Adams. That
is a huge lineup. That is a huge lineup. And
(06:21):
so I this is how I'm gonna play it because
I'm interested. I'm not gonna lie. I am very interested.
When fev Vleet went down, I was like, oh, well,
they're in the market for another point guard, and there's
a lot of people some I'm a lot smarter than
I very very good, I mean very very bought into
(06:43):
the thought of I'm and Thompson making another leap in
his career this year. I think he can do it.
We saw kind of spurts of it at different times,
in different moments throughout the regular season last year. But
now he's legit more than likely probably gonna be the
primary ball handler, like I think Kevin Durant will probably
be bringing the ball up a good amount, But I
think it's gonna be between him and I'm and Thompson
(07:03):
for a good majority of this game, at least until
they get the bench unit in there. And I don't
think this is gonna be the same year for Amen
Thompson at least. Everything that I'm listening to seeing is
this isn't gonna be the same I'm in Thompson is
just playing in the corner. He's getting you know, good
off ball movement cuts to the basket like, and he's
just playing a bunch of defense like. No, they're putting
(07:24):
the ball in his hands a good amount this year,
and I think they're gonna trust him to be able
to run this offense with these players. They've been practicing
this for a while. They knew this was good game plan.
They n frev afleet was gonna go down. It wasn't
like that this was something that just happened last night
and now they're just throwing something together. This was the plan.
And so I say all that to say, give me.
(07:45):
I'm and Thompson over five and a half as this here.
I understand that you don't have the history from this
is last year. He's gone over this and had those
big assist games a few games last year, but I
just feel like this is so different. I feel like
with the ball in his hands, the opportunity to make
decisions and passing over to you know, like Kevin Durant,
you got the bigs, Shane Gun and Adams down there,
(08:06):
so I think he can get some really nice assists
off of them, whether he's going a lob to Adams
or he's able to give shanggu and the ball and
the block and let Shangun go to work. Like, I
think that it's gonna be an opportunity for Amen Thompson
to be able to get to rack up some assists here,
So give me Amen Thompson over six and a half assists.
It really is plus money. It's plus money, and it
(08:28):
doesn't feel like it's impossible for this to happen. It
really doesn't. So that's play number one. I'm gonna rock
with Amen Thompson. All right, let's get into the second
play that I have for you on the slate here.
But however, before I talk to you about that second play,
I got to make sure that I talk to you
(08:51):
about the prop bet cheat sheet. But you should know
it's just not any prop bit cheat sheet.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
We are in the NBA season, so it's the return
of the NBA prop bet shee sheet. Come on now,
Like the NBA prop bet she sheet is going to
get you right over the course of the season. We've
seen it every year NBA, w n b A, NFL.
The prop bet she She's where you need to go
to kill prayer props. See the top player prop picks
(09:19):
based on our projections and the sportsbook lines, and they're
updated daily with the recommended bets for points, rebounds and assists.
So head over to bettingpros dot com slash NBA props
or log into the betting pros app and start cashing today.
All right, let's see here. I talked about it and
(09:44):
I teased it yesterday. If you caught that, I'm curious
if anybody caught it, but I will be placing a bet.
We're gonna keep it in the assists round. Give me
Austin Reeves to go over five and a half assists here.
I think Austin Reeves h has an opportunity where Lebron
James yet again is out for the start of this season.
(10:06):
He's going to be playing alongside Luka Dontach And we
actually do have game log of this. In what was
it five games five games without Lebron James last season,
Austin Reeves is four and one to his assist this
assist prop, not just his assist prop, but this assist prop.
(10:27):
With Lebron James out of the line up and with
Luka Dontag in the lineup, he has gone five and one, ten, three, six, six, eight.
So we understand that Luca has the ball in his hands.
Yes he does, but this is actually Luca in the
Austin Reeves show when Lebron is out. It's not just
a Luca show. They have so much trust in Austin
(10:49):
Reeves and bringing the ball up the court, being an
initiator of offense, being that kind of pseudo point guard
for this team where they like to play Luca off ball.
They like to be able to, Hey, get Luca in space,
get Luca different opportunities to try to score the basketball
here and get all the attention today here from Steve
Kurr and his Warriors group is gonna be on Luca Dontas.
(11:09):
Whether it works or not will be up to Luca,
but it all of the attention will be on Luca
Dotig and that is going to free up Austin Grieves
to be able to not only make plays with Luca
here or there, but with the rest of this Lakers offense.
Maybe Ruy Hochimara, but I think that he's gonna be
able to move. I think they're gonna be able to score.
I think that the pace is gonna be up there
(11:31):
where these two teams are gonna be trying to go
back and forth with each other a little bit here.
And I can see Austin Reeves having a really good
assist game. So his assist are at five and a half,
that is also at plus money, so to assist props
for plus money to start the season, and I don't
think that is crazy that they could topple these totals
at all. He averaged six point six in games about
(11:52):
Lebron James last year. So I'm gonna go ahead and
take Austin Reeves to go over five and a half
assists another plus money. This is plus one eleven. Uh
I got plus one on nine on the Amen TIMPs.
I'm sorry the Amen Thompson prompt. So that is what
I'm adding to my card. I had to play from yesterday.
If you didn't listen to yesterday's episode, go listen to it.
(12:14):
But I'm in Thompson here over five naphasis and Austin
Reeves over five a naphasis. And that's how I'm gonna
close things out for NBA tip Off here today, I'm
att really real underscore underscore on X. Make sure you
may follow at Betting Pros on X and TikTok at
Betting Pros, NFL, on inscrimming YouTube dot com, slash Betting
Pros where you can subscribe to Betting Pros YouTube, comment
(12:35):
on your fast Break Pets video and have a chance
to win eight Penny Hardaway sign jersey and with.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
That that is it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I have nothing else, say nothing else, do no other
way of any the podcast just like this good luck
on the first day of NBA basketball.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Remember it is a marathon, not a sprint.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
To the.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Taboa to the Tabo
Yeah, sir, We're back with another edition of Fast Break
Bets by Bettingburgh. You know me, no voice, no guys,
me really Phila Rod Torrell from in junior here at George, sir, it's.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Breaking news. The n b A is back to night.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We are back for another season of hoops. Get ready
for what more than likely is going to be an
emotional roller coaster ride the art of a new season.
We may or may not crown a new champion because
there's a good chance that the Oklahoma City Thunder can
(01:09):
repeat here. But we'll see things happen. It's hard, it's hard,
like do not let Lebron James and Steph Curry confuse you.
It is very very hard to repeat as champions. It's
very very hard to go back to the conference finals.
(01:29):
I mean to the NBA finals really hard. As much
as I love this okayc teams, things may not break right,
but it's cool, it's great.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I like them.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I think the Knicks could have a little bit of
a season this year. Let's see a lot of things
to sit here and look forward to a lot of things.
We've got two games on the slate here. Let me
give you two plays to start kick things off in
the NBA. But before I do that, I got to
make sure that I get us paid. Talking about hard
Rock Bet, because you can still go lock into hard
(02:05):
rock Bet and check out all the things they have
going on over there in the app. They have their
streaks which is heating up in the hard rock Bet
stats hub where you can find live odds to bet
on all of the streaks right now. In the NFL
and in the NBA. Like tonight, the Warriors have won
and covered the spread in seven straight games as a
(02:25):
road favorite against the Western Conference Oklahom City Thunder. I've
covered in six in a row at home against the
Western Conference. So hey, get over there, lock in use
the hard rock Bet app. If your new customers just
placed a five dollar bet, and if that five dollar
bet hits, not only will you get the winnings of
your five dollar bet, of course, but you will also
get eight hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets just
(02:48):
like that. Plus all week go on hard rock Bet,
we are giving away NBA parlay boost bonuses for the game.
You can get an NBA parlay boost to your NBA
all week. You can boost the same game portlay you
can boost SGP max.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You can do all of.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
That and get extra winning. So make sure you go
do that lock in heart rock bit, and I'll give
you a couple of plays that you might be able
to throw into that hard rock bit partay here just
in the second I'll definitely try to look out for you.
Hopefully they win, but make sure you go tap into
hard rock.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Bit payble and bonus bets not a cash offer offered
by the Seminole Tribe of Florida in Florida, offered by
a Seminal hard Rock Digital LLC in other states. Must
be twenty one and physically president Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana,
New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, or Virginia to play. Terms and
conditions apply. Concerned about gambling in Florida called one eight
eight eight admit it in Indiana. If you are somebody
you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call
(03:43):
one eight hundred and nine with it gambling problem called
one hundred gambler in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, in New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
All right, let's get into the game's first game. Up
on the docket haven't given out a play in this
game yet. So about the Oklahoma City Thunder going on
the I mean sorry at home, Oklahoma City Thunder at
home going to battle the Houston Rockets. Rockets are catching
seven on the road to twenty seven and a half
(04:11):
is total little, I mean breaking news, breaking news. There
is an injury report in this game, because everybody in
the NBA is injured before the season starts for whatever reason,
(04:31):
like whatever reason, I just all these players are injured.
But we know Frevan Fleet is out for the season.
Deshaun Tate is listed out for this game, as said
Joe for the Oklahoma City Thunders out for this game. A. J.
Mitchell is not listed on the injury report, expected to
play in the game. Here we also have who else
(04:53):
was Jay Dubb? Jalen Williams. Jay Dubb, the starter. He
is out, He's not expected to miss extended time, but
he is not playing in this game. So they are
missing the Oklahoma City Thunder arguably is it even arguably?
It's not arguably. That's legit their second best player. Yeah,
(05:14):
that's Jada, like legit, their second best player. So they're
gonna be without their second best player. Here in this spot,
I'm really considering taking Rockets because I just think that
missing missing Ja Doug, You're so you're gonna go be
He's more than likely gonna go big with Isaiah Hartstein
(05:37):
and check Williams on the flour. I mean, not check Williams,
check Holgram. I'm putting all these names together. Check Houlgrim
on the floor. At the same time, I don't have
an officials starting report here for the Oklahoma City Thunder,
And that was a little bit of like, all right,
let me just go ahead and keep things slow. I
was very very close taking Rockets plus seven. I just
(05:57):
thought injury might be a little bit too much. And
the Rockets starting lineup is very very interesting. Look and
listen to the starting lineup that is said per Ime
Udoka is supposed to play on opening night, I mean Thompson,
Kevin Durant, Jabarismith Junior, Alfren Shangun and Steven Adams. That
is a huge lineup. That is a huge lineup. And
(06:21):
so I this is how I'm gonna play it because
I'm interested. I'm not gonna lie. I am very interested.
When fev Vleet went down, I was like, oh, well,
they're in the market for another point guard, and there's
a lot of people some I'm a lot smarter than
I very very good, I mean very very bought into
(06:43):
the thought of I'm and Thompson making another leap in
his career this year. I think he can do it.
We saw kind of spurts of it at different times,
in different moments throughout the regular season last year. But
now he's legit more than likely probably gonna be the
primary ball handler, like I think Kevin Durant will probably
be bringing the ball up a good amount, But I
think it's gonna be between him and I'm and Thompson
(07:03):
for a good majority of this game, at least until
they get the bench unit in there. And I don't
think this is gonna be the same year for Amen
Thompson at least. Everything that I'm listening to seeing is
this isn't gonna be the same I'm in Thompson is
just playing in the corner. He's getting you know, good
off ball movement cuts to the basket like, and he's
just playing a bunch of defense like. No, they're putting
(07:24):
the ball in his hands a good amount this year,
and I think they're gonna trust him to be able
to run this offense with these players. They've been practicing
this for a while. They knew this was good game plan.
They n frev afleet was gonna go down. It wasn't
like that this was something that just happened last night
and now they're just throwing something together. This was the plan.
And so I say all that to say, give me.
(07:45):
I'm and Thompson over five and a half as this here.
I understand that you don't have the history from this
is last year. He's gone over this and had those
big assist games a few games last year, but I
just feel like this is so different. I feel like
with the ball in his hands, the opportunity to make
decisions and passing over to you know, like Kevin Durant,
you got the bigs, Shane Gun and Adams down there,
(08:06):
so I think he can get some really nice assists
off of them, whether he's going a lob to Adams
or he's able to give shanggu and the ball and
the block and let Shangun go to work. Like, I
think that it's gonna be an opportunity for Amen Thompson
to be able to get to rack up some assists here,
So give me Amen Thompson over six and a half assists.
It really is plus money. It's plus money, and it
(08:28):
doesn't feel like it's impossible for this to happen. It
really doesn't. So that's play number one. I'm gonna rock
with Amen Thompson. All right, let's get into the second
play that I have for you on the slate here.
But however, before I talk to you about that second play,
I got to make sure that I talk to you
(08:51):
about the prop bet cheat sheet. But you should know
it's just not any prop bit cheat sheet.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
We are in the NBA season, so it's the return
of the NBA prop bet shee sheet. Come on now,
Like the NBA prop bet she sheet is going to
get you right over the course of the season. We've
seen it every year NBA, w n b A, NFL.
The prop bet she She's where you need to go
to kill prayer props. See the top player prop picks
(09:19):
based on our projections and the sportsbook lines, and they're
updated daily with the recommended bets for points, rebounds and assists.
So head over to bettingpros dot com slash NBA props
or log into the betting pros app and start cashing today.
All right, let's see here. I talked about it and
(09:44):
I teased it yesterday. If you caught that, I'm curious
if anybody caught it, but I will be placing a bet.
We're gonna keep it in the assists round. Give me
Austin Reeves to go over five and a half assists here.
I think Austin Reeves h has an opportunity where Lebron
James yet again is out for the start of this season.
(10:06):
He's going to be playing alongside Luka Dontach And we
actually do have game log of this. In what was
it five games five games without Lebron James last season,
Austin Reeves is four and one to his assist this
assist prop, not just his assist prop, but this assist prop.
(10:27):
With Lebron James out of the line up and with
Luka Dontag in the lineup, he has gone five and one, ten, three, six, six, eight.
So we understand that Luca has the ball in his hands.
Yes he does, but this is actually Luca in the
Austin Reeves show when Lebron is out. It's not just
a Luca show. They have so much trust in Austin
(10:49):
Reeves and bringing the ball up the court, being an
initiator of offense, being that kind of pseudo point guard
for this team where they like to play Luca off ball.
They like to be able to, Hey, get Luca in space,
get Luca different opportunities to try to score the basketball
here and get all the attention today here from Steve
Kurr and his Warriors group is gonna be on Luca Dontas.
(11:09):
Whether it works or not will be up to Luca,
but it all of the attention will be on Luca
Dotig and that is going to free up Austin Grieves
to be able to not only make plays with Luca
here or there, but with the rest of this Lakers offense.
Maybe Ruy Hochimara, but I think that he's gonna be
able to move. I think they're gonna be able to score.
I think that the pace is gonna be up there
(11:31):
where these two teams are gonna be trying to go
back and forth with each other a little bit here.
And I can see Austin Reeves having a really good
assist game. So his assist are at five and a half,
that is also at plus money, so to assist props
for plus money to start the season, and I don't
think that is crazy that they could topple these totals
at all. He averaged six point six in games about
(11:52):
Lebron James last year. So I'm gonna go ahead and
take Austin Reeves to go over five and a half
assists another plus money. This is plus one eleven. Uh
I got plus one on nine on the Amen TIMPs.
I'm sorry the Amen Thompson prompt. So that is what
I'm adding to my card. I had to play from yesterday.
If you didn't listen to yesterday's episode, go listen to it.
(12:14):
But I'm in Thompson here over five naphasis and Austin
Reeves over five a naphasis. And that's how I'm gonna
close things out for NBA tip Off here today, I'm
att really real underscore underscore on X. Make sure you
may follow at Betting Pros on X and TikTok at
Betting Pros, NFL, on inscrimming YouTube dot com, slash Betting
Pros where you can subscribe to Betting Pros YouTube, comment
(12:35):
on your fast Break Pets video and have a chance
to win eight Penny Hardaway sign jersey and with.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
That that is it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I have nothing else, say nothing else, do no other
way of any the podcast just like this good luck
on the first day of NBA basketball.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Remember it is a marathon, not a sprint.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
To the.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Taboa to the Tabo
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