{"id":10885,"date":"2010-11-21T21:50:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T02:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10885"},"modified":"2010-11-21T21:50:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T02:50:19","slug":"orlando-magic-vs-san-antonio-spurs-pro-basketball-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/orlando-magic-vs-san-antonio-spurs-pro-basketball-betting-preview-10885\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic vs San Antonio Spurs Pro Basketball Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando Magic at San Antonio Spurs
\nMonday, 11\/22\/10, 8:30 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Antonio -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 196
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 196<\/strong><\/p>\n

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San Antonio has the best record in the NBA and is the second-highest scoring team in the league coming into tonight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Orlando escaped with a 90-86 road win over the Indiana Pacers in its last game despite being out-rebounded and having more turnovers.\u00a0 \u201cWe have a lot of grind-it-out wins,\u201d said head coach Stan Van Gundy.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re not scoring a lot offensively.\u00a0 On the positive side, towards the end of the season, come playoff time, we\u2019ve got to learn to win those games.\u201d\u00a0 Center Dwight Howard led the team with 25 points and 12 rebounds, while he\u2019s averaging 21.4 points and 11.1 rebounds a contest.\u00a0 The Magic have posted a 3-1 road record this season and will be facing their first Western Conference opponent away from Orlando tonight.\u00a0 The squad is 24-15 ATS as an underdog the past three years and the NBA lines page shows them getting a couple baskets.<\/p>\n

The Magic have won three in a row on the road and seem to relish the challenge under Van Gundy.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve been a pretty good road team over the years since I\u2019ve been here, especially since Stan\u2019s been here,\u201d said point guard Jameer Nelson.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s hard to go on the road because you don\u2019t have the energy coming from your fans.\u201d\u00a0 Under Van Gundy, Orlando is 82-45 on the road, including a 25-16 mark last year.\u00a0 In order to pull off the win tonight, the defense will have to play big, as they lead the NBA in allowing just 90.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

San Antonio ran its winning streak to 10 games with a 116-92 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers at home on Saturday, pushing its record to an NBA-best 11-1 on the season.\u00a0 \u201cGreat run for us,\u201d said forward Tim Duncan.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a good start for us.\u00a0 There\u2019s going to be some ups and downs this season, but this team is built on what we did last year.\u201d\u00a0 The team received a huge bench performance in the victory, with the reserves chipping in with 54 points, including 18 points from Tiago Splitter.\u00a0 The Spurs have a great chance of improving upon that mark tonight, posting an 18-4 record at home against the Magic.\u00a0 Last year, the Spurs split the season series with each team winning on its home floor.\u00a0 San Antonio is 11-13 ATS as a home favorite of 3.5 to 6 points.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are currently second in the NBA in scoring 107.8 points per game, after managing to put up just 101.4 a contest during the 2009-10 campaign.\u00a0 Having a healthy Tony Parker at point guard has certainly helped on the offensive end, as he\u2019s averaging 19.1 points and 7.7 assists this season.\u00a0 \u201cI think all of us feel really good right now,\u201d said Duncan.\u00a0 \u201cThis is the best I\u2019ve felt in a couple of years.\u00a0 Manu is playing great.\u00a0 Tony Parker is playing awesome.\u201d\u00a0 Head coach Gregg Popovich is doing the best job he can in keeping players fresh, with no player playing more than 29 minutes in the second game of a back-to-back on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Magic are 4-1 ATS versus the Western Conference, while the Spurs are 5-0-1 ATS against Eastern foes.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t let the season pass you by and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports take you to the winner\u2019s circle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orlando Magic at San Antonio Spurs Monday, 11\/22\/10, 8:30 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Antonio -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 196 Current Total:\u00a0 196 Orlando escaped with a 90-86 road win over the Indiana Pacers in its last game despite being out-rebounded and having more turnovers.\u00a0 \u201cWe have a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[833,3622,3940,659,141,3649,3350,1029,3693],"class_list":["post-10885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-dwight-howard","tag-eastern-conference","tag-gregg-popovich","tag-orlando-magic","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-stan-van-gundy","tag-tim-duncan","tag-tony-parker","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885","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=10885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10886,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions\/10886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}