{"id":10238,"date":"2010-11-04T07:30:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10238"},"modified":"2010-11-04T10:42:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T15:42:30","slug":"new-york-knicks-vs-chicago-bulls-nba-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/new-york-knicks-vs-chicago-bulls-nba-betting-preview-10238\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks vs Chicago Bulls NBA Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks at Chicago Bulls
\nThursday, 11\/4\/10, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 202
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 203.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The New York Knicks head into the Windy City as a seven-point underdog to take on the Bulls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York heads to the Windy City to take on the Bulls at the United Center and try to win for just the third time in 19 games in Chicago.\u00a0 The Knicks are coming off a disappointing 100-95 effort to the Portland Trail Blazers at home, a game that they led by nine points with 5:32 remaining in the game, only to score seven points the rest of the way.\u00a0 The team is definitely focused on trying to avoid a third consecutive loss, suffering its defeats by a combined nine points.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re still getting used to each other, still trying to get that chemistry, but things didn\u2019t go our way,\u201d said point guard Raymond Felton.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s tough to lose a game like that.\u201d\u00a0 It will be a tall task to turn things around against an opponent they\u2019ve lost to 22 of the last 31 overall meetings.\u00a0 The team is 45-36 ATS on the road and the NBA lines page shows them as a seven-point underdog.<\/p>\n

The Knicks dropped last season\u2019s series 31, winning the first meeting at the Garden on December 22 after losing in Chicago just five days earlier.\u00a0 New York then dropped a home-and-home, back-to-back in February.\u00a0 Forward Wilson Chandler averaged 16.3 points and 4.8 rebounds in the four meetings last year and his contract situation has been a topic of discussion around the Big Apple.\u00a0 \u201cI spent most of my life with no money, so to wait a year won\u2019t be hard to deal with,\u201d he stated.\u00a0 \u201cWhatever I get will be better than what I have.\u201d\u00a0 Chandler posted 22 points and 16 rebounds in the team\u2019s last game versus the Blazers and is now averaging 21 points per contest.<\/p>\n

Chicago is coming in off an impressive 110-98 home victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday and was led by forward Luol Deng\u2019s career night.\u00a0 Deng managed to score 40 points on 14 of 19 shooting from the field and was joined by point guard Derrick Rose matching a career-high with 13 assists.\u00a0 \u201cHe got 40 points, but it wasn\u2019t any isolation plays,\u201d said guard Kyle Korver.\u00a0 \u201cIt wasn\u2019t like we were standing around watching Lu.\u201d\u00a0 One area of concern showed up in the contest with the Bulls continuing to foul opponents.\u00a0 Portland hit 32 of 41 free throws and the squad is allowing opponents an average of 41 attempts at the charity stripe per game.\u00a0 The team is 2-0 ATS at home and 10-11 ATS as a favorite of 6.5 to 9 points at the United Center.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are still a work in progress and will be looking forward to Carlos Boozer joining the starting lineup.\u00a0 \u201cWe understand that we\u2019re a man down without Carlos and we\u2019re trying to pick up the slack, just battle night in and night out,\u201d power forward Taj Gibson said.\u00a0 \u201cThe first loss of the season to Oklahoma City really motivated us.\u201d\u00a0 Boozer is set to get his cast removed from his broken right hand this week but is expected to be sidelined another month.\u00a0 Rose picked up some of the slack in averaging 33.5 points per game in the first two contests, which actually led the league, but returned to being a facilitator on Monday.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in playing the Knicks due to their 77-60 ATS mark as a road underdog of 6.5 points, while the Bulls are 7-1 ATS versus the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n

The basketball season is just a couple weeks old and there\u2019s no better time to start getting NBA expert picks from the team at Maddux Sports!\u00a0 Currently they are on a 11-1 NBA pick run and are as hot as can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks at Chicago Bulls Thursday, 11\/4\/10, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 202 Current Total:\u00a0 203.5 \u00a0 New York heads to the Windy City to take on the Bulls at the United Center and try to win for just the third time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[2067,174,521,3692,115,3674,3183],"class_list":["post-10238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-carlos-boozer","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-derrick-rose","tag-kyle-korver","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-united-center","tag-wilson-chandler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10241,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions\/10241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}