{"id":356437,"date":"2025-12-18T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356437\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:50:12","slug":"euroleague-basketball-picks-best-bets-for-round-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356437\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague Basketball Picks: Best Bets for Round 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lamar Stevens is getting into the swing of things for Paris, and that earns him a spot among the top plays Kurt Jones has compiled for Thursday&#8217;s EuroLeague games.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lozad \" style=\"aspect-ratio:16 \/ 7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/xuc2ybczhgkgw0igalqq.jpg\" alt=\"EuroLeague Basketball Picks: Best Bets for Round 17 - Thursday\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-credit=\"Paris Basketball\" data-creditlink=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1373880128082414&amp;set=pb.100063813185774.-2207520000&amp;type=3\"\/><br \/>\n\t\tBest EuroLeague Bets for Thursday, Dec. 18<\/p>\n<p>All odds for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/betting\/euro\/player-props.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EuroLeague player props<\/a> current as of 7:15 AM ET Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>PICKS TO CLICK<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PBB.png\" class=\"article__logo\" alt=\"PBB\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/euro\/player\/lamar-stevens-1455\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lamar Stevens<\/a> Over 7.5 Points (-115 FanDuel)<\/p>\n<p>Stevens did not make his Paris debut until late November due to a foot injury, but he has gradually gotten more involved in terms of playing time and production. He got 23 minutes Tuesday and responded with 12 points and five rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens is comfortable in a fast-paced environment having spent several seasons in the NBA, and his role should continue to expand, particularly if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/euro\/player\/derek-willis-1201\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derek Willis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/euro\/player\/yakuba-ouattara-994\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yakuba Ouattara<\/a> remain sidelined. It wouldn&#8217;t be the worst idea to find out who starts for Paris on Thursday before making this play, as the line should not move.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RMB.png\" class=\"article__logo\" alt=\"RMB\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/euro\/player\/walter-tavares-491\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Tavares<\/a> Over 15.5 Points+Rebounds (-120 bet365)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RMB.png\" class=\"article__logo\" alt=\"RMB\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/euro\/player\/trey-lyles-1461\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Lyles<\/a> 15+ Points (+115 bet365)<\/p>\n<p>I contemplated a combination play for Lyles but wound up going with both players. The minutes have been encouraging for Tavares and I think one of the two does work Thursday because Paris has been beaten inside all season.<\/p>\n<p>With Tavares you have a big man that causes big mismatches, and with Lyles you have a player who can run the court and stretch the floor while crashing the glass. If you&#8217;re worried about the pace of play for Tavares, I think it&#8217;s perfectly fine to fade him and go with Lyles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FBB.png\" class=\"article__logo\" alt=\"FBB\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/euro\/player\/wade-baldwin-iv-684\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wade Baldwin IV<\/a> 15+ Points (+115 bet365)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always tough to trust rotations when Sarunas Jasikevicius is involved, but if I get burned by one of his safest option it just wasn&#8217;t meant to be. This is simply a matchup play, as you can see on RotoWire&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/euro\/opp-avg.php?length=last5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EuroLeague Opponent Averages<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin is coming off a couple so-so games in the points column, but he has reached double digits in four straight and in all but two appearances this season, and he now faces a Milan team ceding the most points to opposing guards over the last five Rounds by a decent margin.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s Best EuroLeague Bets<\/p>\n<p>Stay up-to-date with RotoWire&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/euro\/injury-report.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EuroLeague Injury Report<\/a>, expansive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/euro\/stats.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EuroLeague stats<\/a>\u00a0database and much more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamar Stevens is getting into the swing of things for Paris, and that earns him a spot among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-356437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}