We are continuing the week in the NBA with an awesome 10-game slate on Friday. Two of the matchups will be televised on ESPN: Nets vs Celtics and Grizzlies vs Nuggets. The Knicks, Heat, Suns, Warriors, Clippers and Lakers are also lacing up their sneakers. Let's take a look at my 3-team NBA mega parlay for Friday's action.'
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For this parlay, we are going with 2 favorites against the spread — 1 on an alternate number — and 1 underdog on the money line. Let's break down each of the 3 legs.'
Orlando Magic -3.5 over Charlotte Hornets (-110)'
The Hornets are too far ahead of the bottom 3 teams to give themselves a maximum chance of winning the Victor Wembanyama sweepstakes. They are also too far behind everyone else to finish with anything other than the fourth-worst record in the NBA. As such, the Hornets have no reason to purposely lose games. However, they are just naturally so bad that they will in all likelihood continue to do so. Charlotte won 3 games in a row going into the all-star break and 2 straight coming out of it, but all of those were with LaMelo Ball. He has since been ruled out for the remainder of the season due to ankle surgery. Charlotte lost at home to Orlando by 6 points last month and that was with Ball scoring 33 points.