{"id":11507,"date":"2010-12-14T10:58:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T15:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11507"},"modified":"2010-12-14T10:58:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T15:58:53","slug":"pro-basketball-betting-orlando-magic-vs-denver-nuggets-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-basketball-betting-orlando-magic-vs-denver-nuggets-predictions-11507\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Basketball Betting: Orlando Magic vs Denver Nuggets Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando Magic at Denver Nuggets
\nTuesday, 12\/14\/10, 9:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 NBA TV
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Orlando -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 204
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 206<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Orlando Magic have moved to a slight road favorite in facing the Denver Nuggets tonight inside the Pepsi Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Orlando snapped a four-game losing streak with a convincing 94-85 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers behind center Dwight Howard\u2019s 22 points.\u00a0 The Magic averaged just 86.8 points in the four games before facing the league\u2019s worst team, which has a few experts questioning the club\u2019s chances later in the season.\u00a0 \u201cThere are going to be tough times and tough stretches in the season and it\u2019s just about how you get out of it,\u201d said point guard Jameer Nelson.\u00a0 \u201cThis is just one game and we\u2019re happy to have it, but we have to build from it.\u201d\u00a0 Defense has been the strength of this team throughout the season, holding Los Angeles to 38 percent shooting from the field last time out, while ranking fourth in the league in allowing just 91.9 points per game.\u00a0 Orlando is 9-15 ATS on the season and moved from a underdog to slight road favorite on the NBA lines page.<\/p>\n

The Magic are 28-15 all-time versus the Denver Nuggets during the regular season, including a 1-1 mark last year.\u00a0 Orlando and Denver have split the last 14 meetings, but the Magic have lost six of the last seven games in the Mile High City.\u00a0 The club is currently 7-5 on the road this season after finishing 25-16 away from Orland in 2009-10, the third-best road record in team history.\u00a0 Even though the team has struggled at times this season, it still carries the sixth-best point differential (+5.1) in the NBA, but is still off from its NBA-best +7.5 mark of last year.<\/p>\n

Denver looks to extend its seven-game winning streak at the Pepsi Center, following a 1-3 road trip that ended with a 129-125 loss to the New York Knicks on Sunday.\u00a0 The Nuggets simply couldn\u2019t avoid the distraction of forward Carmelo Anthony possibly being traded before the end of the year and those voices became louder while in the Big Apple.\u00a0 \u201cMore of the drama, man,\u201d Anthony stated.\u00a0 \u201cI was there and so it was a hot topic to talk about it.\u00a0 That\u2019s not my focus right now.\u00a0 My focus is to try to get some wins back home.\u201d\u00a0 He scored 31 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in the loss after sitting out the previous two games.\u00a0 The team is 10-1 at home this season, including a perfect 4-0 mark versus the Eastern Conference.\u00a0 Denver is 8-14 ATS on the year and 103-99 ATS over the last three seasons.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets own a lifetime .349 winning percentage against the Magic, which ranks as the second worst winning percentage for Denver against a single opponent (Los Angeles Lakers).\u00a0 With the recent loss, the team has now had 16 of its 23 games this season decided by single digits, including 11 games by five or fewer points.\u00a0 The club is tied with Boston for the best home record in the entire league, while posting a 178-58 mark at the Pepsi Center under head coach George Karl.\u00a0 In fact, Denver has posted\u00a0 54-8 home record in its last 62 home games, averaging 111.4 points per contest.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Magic are 13-3 ATS as a road favorite of 0.5 to 4.5 points, while the Nuggets are 4-15-2 ATS versus the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

The NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready for a huge night on the hard court and can\u2019t wait for you to join them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orlando Magic at Denver Nuggets Tuesday, 12\/14\/10, 9:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 NBA TV Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Orlando -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 204 Current Total:\u00a0 206 Orlando snapped a four-game losing streak with a convincing 94-85 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers behind center Dwight Howard\u2019s 22 points.\u00a0 The Magic averaged just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[49,526,833,3622,3636,659,3637],"class_list":["post-11507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-dwight-howard","tag-eastern-conference","tag-george-karl","tag-orlando-magic","tag-pepsi-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11507","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=11507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11508,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11507\/revisions\/11508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}