{"id":10667,"date":"2010-11-15T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T15:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10667"},"modified":"2010-11-15T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T15:11:51","slug":"denver-nuggets-vs-phoenix-suns-pro-basketball-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/denver-nuggets-vs-phoenix-suns-pro-basketball-predictions-10667\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets vs Phoenix Suns Pro Basketball Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver Nuggets at Phoenix Suns
\nMonday, 11\/15\/10, 9:00 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Phoenix -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Phoenix -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 218
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 217.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Phoenix Suns haven't lost to the Denver Nuggets at home since PG Steve Nash returned to the Valley of the Sun in 2004<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Denver picked up a solid 118-112 win on Thursday night at home over the Los Angeles Lakers and now head into an arena they\u2019ve lost 11 straight times and haven\u2019t won since Carmelo Anthony\u2019s rookie season.\u00a0 The Nuggets were led by Anthony\u2019s 32 points in the victory and the play of an undersized bench early in the fourth was the difference.\u00a0 The team is 5-4 and has played all nine games without big men Chris Anderson and Kenyon Martin.\u00a0 \u201cI think we\u2019re in preseason,\u201d said head coach George Karl.\u00a0 \u201cEverybody things it ends after the 28 days of practice, but the way the preseason is run, you got to spend another 2-3 weeks trying to see what worked.\u201d\u00a0 The team is 9-7 ATS as a road underdog of three points or less and the NBA lines page has them getting on the road tonight.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are 6-16 overall against the Suns since the 2004-05 season, including 0-11 on the road.\u00a0 Denver\u2019s 11-game losing streak in Phoenix is their longest active road losing streak against a Western Conference opponent.\u00a0 The road team has won just one game in this series since the end of the 2006-07 season.\u00a0 In scoring a season-high 118 points against the Lakers, Denver improved its record to 5-2 on the season when scoring 100-plus points in a game.\u00a0 The squad has won 45 straight home games when scoring 110-plus points.\u00a0 Over the past 35 road games, the team has gone 14-21 away from the Pepsi Center since December 2009.<\/p>\n

Phoenix used a three-point assault to send the Lakers to their first home loss of the season last night, knocking down 22 3-pointers in a 121-116 win at the Staples Center.\u00a0 \u201cYou feel like the basket is huge and that every shot you throw up is going to go in,\u201d said forward Jason Richardson.\u00a0 \u201cCoach Alvin Gentry was calling plays for me and my teammates were finding me.\u201d\u00a0 The Suns have enjoyed that type of outside shooting against tonight\u2019s opponent at home, connecting on 47.5 percent of 3-pointers in the 11-game run.\u00a0 Phoenix was able to outscore Los Angeles by a 66-27 margin from beyond the arc, which overshadowed the team getting out-rebounded, 49-32.\u00a0 The team is 4-5 ATS on the season.<\/p>\n

The Suns are above .500 for the first time during the 2010-11 campaign and hold an even 2-2 mark against Western Conference foes at home.\u00a0 Phoenix has a perfect 3-0 mark in the first night of a back-to-back and 0-2 record on the second night.\u00a0 The team has won 10 of its last 12 regular season home games dating back to last season and produced a 14-2 home record after the All-Star break.\u00a0 Phoenix\u2019s bench has been a strength early on this season, ranking third in the league by averaging 40.3 points, sitting just behind the Philadelphia 76ers and Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Nuggets are 15-5-1 ATS in their last 21 games on three or more days of rest, while the Suns are 16-7 ATS in their last 23 games as a favorite of 0.5 to 4.5 points.<\/p>\n

The NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports are fully prepped for another full-week of exciting hardcourt action.\u00a0 Join them today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Denver Nuggets at Phoenix Suns Monday, 11\/15\/10, 9:00 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Phoenix -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Phoenix -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 218 Current Total:\u00a0 217.5 Denver picked up a solid 118-112 win on Thursday night at home over the Los Angeles Lakers and now head into an arena they\u2019ve lost 11 straight times and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[701,49,526,3636,575,873,577],"class_list":["post-10667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-alvin-gentry","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-george-karl","tag-jason-richardson","tag-kenyon-martin","tag-phoenix-suns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667","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=10667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10668,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions\/10668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}