{"id":11722,"date":"2010-12-20T21:45:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T02:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11722"},"modified":"2010-12-20T21:45:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T02:45:43","slug":"pro-basketball-betting-philadelphia-76ers-at-chicago-bulls-picks-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-basketball-betting-philadelphia-76ers-at-chicago-bulls-picks-and-predictions-11722\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Basketball Betting: Philadelphia 76ers at Chicago Bulls Picks and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers at Chicago Bulls
\nTuesday, 12\/21\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago -6
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 190.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 191<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Chicago Bulls are six-point home favorites against the Philadelphia 76ers at the United Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Philadelphia is set to play its second game of a eight-game road trip after posting a 97-89 win over the Orlando on Saturday night.\u00a0 The Sixers closed out a stretch of five games in seven nights by downing the shorthanded Magic despite being out-rebounded 53-39.\u00a0 \u201cThe key down the stretch was limiting their 3-point opportunities,\u201d said forward Elton Brand.\u00a0 \u201cWe guarded that 3-point line as well as we have all season.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s still important to note that the team is 3-10 on the road and has lost three straight at the United Center by an average of 17.4 points.\u00a0 All of the club\u2019s victories away from home have come against Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 18-8 ATS in all games this season and current a underdog on the NBA lines page.<\/p>\n

The Sixers lost the 2009-10 season series 3-1, but the teams have split the past 12 meetings.\u00a0 Philadelphia is trying to avoid losing three straight to Chicago for first time since January 12, 2005-February 16, 2006.\u00a0 During last year\u2019s meetings, The Bulls averaged 104.3 points on 45.1 percent shooting compared to 92.0 points and 43.3 percent shooting for the Sixers.\u00a0 Tuesday\u2019s game serves as the first game of a back-to-back for Philadelphia, posting a 1-8 mark in the first game of this type of situation on the year.\u00a0 It\u2019s also important to point out that the squad id 8-3 over the past 11 games after starting the season 3-13.<\/p>\n

Chicago had its seven-game winning streak snapped in a 100-99 home loss to the Clippers and signs pointed to the club missing center Joakim Noah with a right thumb injury.\u00a0 The Bulls most valuable defensive player will miss eight to 10 weeks and have many concerned about the stop unit of the next couple months.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t like any aspect of our defense because I thought we didn\u2019t come out with the right intensity to start the game,\u201d coach Tom Thibodeau stated.\u00a0 \u201cIn this league, you\u2019ve got to come ready to play every night, and if you don\u2019t, you\u2019re asking for trouble.\u201d\u00a0 Chicago is 10-3 at home this season, including a 3-2 mark against the Eastern Conference.\u00a0 The squad is 12-12 ATS as a home favorite of 3.5 to 6 points.<\/p>\n

The Bulls will be leaning heavily on the frontcourt of Carlos Boozer and Taj Gibson in Noah\u2019s absence.\u00a0 Boozer is averaging 27.0 points over the past three games, which is 9.7 more than his career average.\u00a0 He has also averaged 22.6 points and 10.7 rebounds in his last nine games against Philadelphia.\u00a0 Gibson was forced to leave in the third quarter last time out due to a concussion, but is likely to be available on Tuesday.\u00a0 Another player that shouldn\u2019t be forgotten is star point guard Derrick Rose, who has averaged 20.3 points and 6.1 assists in eight career games versus the Sixers.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Sixers are 10-1 ATS versus the Eastern Conference, while the Bulls are 15-5-2 ATS following a straight up loss.<\/p>\n

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

Philadelphia 76ers at Chicago Bulls Tuesday, 12\/21\/10, 8:00 PM EDT, TV Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago -6 Opening Total:\u00a0 190.5 Current Total:\u00a0 191 Philadelphia is set to play its second game of a eight-game road trip after posting a 97-89 win over the Orlando on Saturday night.\u00a0 The Sixers closed out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":8683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[2067,174,521,3622,271,832,3674],"class_list":["post-11722","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-eastern-conference","tag-elton-brand","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-united-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722","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=11722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11724,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722\/revisions\/11724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}