Partner Content | NBA parlay picks February 5: Back Kings against ice-cold Pelicans

There are six NBA games on Sunday, providing a plethora of options for a three-leg parlay play.

The pregame narrative: The Sacramento Kings are likely to give a struggling New Orleans Pelicans team a game, Joel Embiid has found himself in a rough matchup and the Minnesota Timberwolves have been an excellent home team this season.

Check out our NBA parlay picks for February 5.

Odds as of 1:02 p.m. on 02/05/2023.

NBA parlay picks

Parlay: Kings +7.5 + Embiid under 32.5 points + Timberwolves moneyline (+304)

Kings +7.5 (-295): Sacramento has been one of the NBA’s best stories this season, and teasing their line to +7.5 is a good place to begin this parlay.

The Kings have lost just 17.6% of their games by eight points or more, and it seems unlikely to happen against the Pelicans on Sunday. New Orleans is a mess right now, having lost 10 of its last 11 games.

The Pelicans won their last outing, but that came on Saturday which means they’ll be at a rest disadvantage in this one. The last time the Pelicans covered this spread came on January 9 — and that was against a 24-28 Washington Wizards team.

Sacramento has the third-best ATS road record in the NBA, and it should put together a solid effort against one of the league’s coldest teams.

Other parlay legs

Embiid under 32.5 points (-117): Embiid has been a scoring machine all season, but this is an ambitious line. The MVP candidate has hit this under in slightly more than half of his games this season (51.3%), and he has a tough matchup on his hands.

The New York Knicks don’t have a big-name centre to counter Embiid, but their interior defence has an extremely good track record. New York allows the second-fewest points in the paint in the NBA and they’ve been strong against centres.

They concede the fewest points in the NBA to the position, per FantasyPros, allowing just 17.9 per game. Embiid should shatter that average, but 33 points is a lot to ask.

imberwolves moneyline (-162): This might seem like a surprising line for a 28-27 team hosting the Western Conference’s top seed, but there are a couple of crucial factors tilting this game in Minnesota’s favour.

The first is the venue as the Timberwolves are 19-12 in their home arena, while Denver has been heavily reliant on home-court advantage to build its impressive record. The Nuggets are just 12-12 on the road, and they lost to the Timberwolves by 13 points on their trip to Target Center earlier this season.

Denver is also dealing with a rest disadvantage as they are on the second leg of a back-to-back while the Timberwolves had Saturday off and have been at home since February 1.

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