Max Strus Dropping 20 vs Knicks Comes with +900 Odds

• With 10 games in the regular season with over 20 or more points scored, Strus has +900 to score over 20 Wednesday in NY.
• Max Strus has scored at least 16 points in his last three games for Miami and has +200 odds to go over 15 points in Game 5.
• Strus averaged 11.5 PPG during the 2022-23 regular season and has seen an increase in minutes every game this series.

NEW YORK – Max Strus’s player props are some of the best bets of the game despite Miami’s 9-15 record SU as a road underdog. Strus has +900 odds to score over 20 points in Game 5.

Max Strus Scoring Props

• To Score More Than 10 -215
• To Score More Than 15 +200
• To Score More Than 20 +900

While Max Strus’s 2023 playoff stats have not seen a game with over 20 points scored, he recorded 10 games in the 2022-23 regular season with over 20 points. In the Play-In-Game against the Chicago Bulls last month, Strus scored a season high 31 points in the win playing 36 minutes.

Max Strus Points Prop

• Over 11.5 -115
• Under 11.5 -115

Max Strus’s projected point total on legal sports betting sites matches his 11.5 points per game season average.

While Strus has only averaged 10.5 in the playoffs, he has been catching heat in his last three games.

Max Strus Stats (2023 Playoff Series vs NY)

Strus has scored over 11.5 points in his last three games, as the shooting guard has gotten more minutes in every game since the series started. This correlation trend should point to him receiving good minutes on Wednesday in New York, making the -115 odds on the over favorable.

Strus has scored more than 12 points four times in this series but has scored more than 15 in three of those games. Betting on him to score more than 15 at legal NBA sportsbooks, could be the most profitable bet of the game.

Bettors can also get +5500 on Strus leading both teams in total scoring for this Game 5 in New York. While this prop could certainly hit if Strus gets hot from three, Jimmy Butler has led the Heat in scoring in eight of the nine Heat playoff games this year.