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AI Pick for New Orleans Pelicans vs Denver Nuggets – NBA

The AI takes New Orleans Pelicans at +12.5 because it sees a 6.2-point cushion: New Orleans Pelicans covers as long as they lose by 12 or fewer points, or win.

The model projects New Orleans Pelicans at 113.6 points and Denver Nuggets at 119.9: an expected margin of 6.3 for Denver Nuggets.

In the NBA the real margin lands about 12 points away from the projected one on average: a 6.2-point cushion is more than half a standard deviation, a comfortable margin.

New Orleans Pelicans, last 8 games: 3-5, scoring 114.6 and allowing 128.1 per game.

Denver Nuggets, last 8 games: 5-3, scoring 115.0 and allowing 112.8 per game.

At the +12.5 line, New Orleans Pelicans would have covered in 4 of their last 8 games.

6 bookmakers quote the line and the AI compares it with their fair price: the value comes from that gap, not from guessing the winner.

New Orleans Pelicans are without Trey Murphy III, Dejounte Murray: the model takes 3.7 points off their margin for those absences.

And a tip: the 1.83 price is for the +12.5 line; if the line has moved when you bet, the edge the AI sees changes.