{"id":11509,"date":"2010-12-14T11:33:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T16:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11509"},"modified":"2010-12-14T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T16:33:25","slug":"los-angeles-lakers-at-washington-wizards-free-pro-basketball-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/los-angeles-lakers-at-washington-wizards-free-pro-basketball-picks-11509\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers at Washington Wizards Free Pro Basketball Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers at Washington Wizards
\nTuesday, 12\/14\/10, 7:00 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -10
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -10
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 204
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 204<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas has averaged 25.3 points in 80 career games in December<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Los Angeles has been barely surviving of late on the court and bounced back from a loss in Chicago with a less-than-enthusiastic 99-92 win over the New Jersey Nets on Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cWe have to muster up the energy and muster up the motivation to play every night,\u201d said guard Kobe Bryant.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m annoyed about it.\u00a0 We\u2019re not doing a good job of doing it.\u201d\u00a0 The Lakers might get a shot in the arm with the return of center Andrew Bynum to the lineup for the first time this season, which would help freshen an overworked Pau Gasol in the middle of the lineup.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re not putting anything on it until after we get through practice,\u201d said head coach Phil Jackson.\u00a0 The team is 17-7 overall on the year and 7-5 on the road.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 10-14 ATS on the year and currently a double-digit road favorite on the NBA lines page.<\/p>\n

The Lakers currently lead the season series with Washington 1-0, after sweeping last season\u2019s series for the third consecutive year.\u00a0 Los Angeles tallied a 115-108 win in the first meeting of the season at the Staples Center, with Bryant scoring a game-high 32 points and Gasol pitching in with 21 points.\u00a0 Tuesday\u2019s game is the first of a back-to-back set with the Wizards and Pacers.\u00a0 This season, the Lakers are 3-1 in the first game and 3-1 in the second game of back-to-backs.<\/p>\n

Washington continues to falter this season in dropping four straight games and eight of nine, which has caused coach Flip Saunders to start speaking out publicly.\u00a0 \u201cWe came back in L.A. because we played heard,\u201d he stated.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re at a point right now because our talent level is not up to the team\u2019s we\u2019re playing, we\u2019re just going to have to play harder than people.\u201d\u00a0 The Wizards are 6-4 overall at home this season, including a perfect 3-0 versus the Western Conference.\u00a0 Guard Gilbert Arenas will need to provide a lift in possibly pulling off an upset, as he\u2019s averaged 25.3 points in 80 career games during the month of December, his highest scoring average during any month of his career.\u00a0 Washington is 5-5 ATS at home this season.<\/p>\n

The Wizards have placed an injury status of questionable on point guard John Wall for tonight\u2019s game, as he sat out Wednesday\u2019s 116-91 loss to Sacramento with a foot injury.\u00a0 He had 22 points and a career-best 14 assists against the Lakers last week, which makes it imperative that the rookie star is in the lineup tonight.\u00a0 Another key player in tonight\u2019s contest is Washington\u2019s Nick Young, who is averaging 18.3 points while shooting 54.2 percent from the field in six career games against the Lakers.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in the Lakers being 0-6 ATS on the road, while the Wizards are 4-1 ATS as a home underdog.<\/p>\n

Let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports go to work for you and start investing in a season package today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers at Washington Wizards Tuesday, 12\/14\/10, 7:00 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -10 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -10 Opening Total:\u00a0 204 Current Total:\u00a0 204 Los Angeles has been barely surviving of late on the court and bounced back from a loss in Chicago with a less-than-enthusiastic 99-92 win over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[795,444,843,67,68,909,939,644],"class_list":["post-11509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-andrew-bynum","tag-gilbert-arenas","tag-john-wall","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-pau-gasol","tag-phil-jackson","tag-washington-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509","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=11509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11510,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509\/revisions\/11510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}