As expected, the Wizards have been one of the Eastern Conference’s bottom dwellers so far in the 2024-2025 regular season, with just a 2-9 record while losing seven straight games.

Of their nine losses, only one (a nine-point loss) was by fewer than 10 points. Yes.

Unsurprisingly, Washington’s 3-8 record against the spread on Sunday was the second-worst in the NBA, behind only the Sixers, who have performed significantly below expectations.

The Wizards also had by far the worst net rating (-11.9).

Even more surprising, however, is the Knicks’ slow start to their 2024-2025 season; they enter Monday’s tilt at 7-6 after back-to-back wins over the Nets.

Knicks vs. Wizards Odds

Interestingly enough, the Knicks’ problems have come on the defensive end of the floor, where they had the 10th-worst defensive rating, allowing opponents to post the seventh-highest effective field goal percentage.

But assuming Miles McBride (illness) and Karl-Anthony Towns (knee) are good for the second night of a home-home back-to-back for the Knicks, we’ll be with them against the spread.

The Knicks’ offensive attack is simply too powerful (fourth in offensive rating), and Washington won’t find much success offensively due to the Knicks’ defensive length and switchability.

The vast disparity in three-point shooting also raises important questions about how Washington could even keep this game competitive, especially since it won’t produce any points in transition as the Knicks rank seventh in fast-break points from the opponent per game.

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This is a bad matchup for the Wizards.

Their half-court offense has no chance of generating enough points to stay within double figures of the Knicks.

THE PICK: Knicks -14.5 (-112, DraftKings)

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Andrew Norton has handicapped in the NBA, WNBA, NFL, college basketball and football, UFC and golf. During the 2022-2023 NBA season, he delivered an eye-popping 14.1% ROI, cashed in on 60% of his NBA spread picks and led Tallysight in its SportsIQ metric.