{"id":11914,"date":"2010-12-27T09:19:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11914"},"modified":"2010-12-27T09:19:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T14:19:07","slug":"nba-handicapping-dallas-mavericks-at-oklahoma-city-thunder-betting-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-handicapping-dallas-mavericks-at-oklahoma-city-thunder-betting-predictions-11914\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Handicapping: Dallas Mavericks at Oklahoma City Thunder Betting Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks at Oklahoma City Thunder
\nMonday, 12\/27\/10, 8:00 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 204.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 203.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oklahoma City Thunder star forward Kevin Durant leads the league in scoring 28.1 points per game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dallas brings an NBA-best 10-1 road record into tonight\u2019s contest against Oklahoma City and will be looking to pick up its 17th win in 18 games.\u00a0 \u201cWe feel like we\u2019re one of the best teams in the league, if not the best right now,\u201d said forward Caron Butler.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re playing great basketball, so we want to capitalize on every opportunity.\u201d\u00a0 The Mavericks have been off for five full days since a 105-99 win over the Magic, as Butler led six double-digit scorers with 20 points.\u00a0 Offensively, the team has scored 100 or more points in 14 of its last 17 games and forward Dirk Nowitzki leads the charge and ranks sixth in the league averaging 24.5 points.\u00a0 Dallas is 8-0 ATS as an underdog this year and currently getting points on the NBA lines page.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks face the Thunder for the second time this season and they snapped a two-game losing streak against them with a 111-103 victory at Oklahoma City on November 24.\u00a0 Nowitzki paced the squad with a game-high 34 points and Dallas is 5-3 against the Thunder since the franchise began playing in Oklahoma city in 2008.\u00a0 As mentioned previously, the offense has been performing at a high level over the past 17 games, but the defense has been great for the team the entire season.\u00a0 Dallas has not allowed a single opponent to shoot at least 50 percent from the floor against the Mavericks the entire year.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City is coming off an impressive 114-106 win over Denver on Christmas Day and star forward Kevin Durant scored a season-high 44 points.\u00a0 He\u2019s currently leading the league in scoring at 28.1 points per game.\u00a0 \u201cKevin was a special player tonight,\u201d said coach Scott Brooks.\u00a0 \u201cHe was on fire.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t even hitting the rim.\u201d\u00a0 Brooks has a great luxury of mixing lineups together with dynamic talents on the floor, starting with Durant and continuing on with Russell Westbrook, Jeff Green, James Harden and Serge Ibaka.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 16-14 ATS on the year and 111-87 ATS over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

The Thunder are currently in the midst of a four-game home stand and many of the players have commented that it came at the perfect time after dropping two of their previous three games.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve just got to find a way to get back to our principles and strategies to how we had it back on that five-game winning streak,\u201d said Green.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 11-5 at home and has tallied an 8-4 mark against the Western Conference at the Arena.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the squad has won eight straight games against clubs with a winning record.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Mavericks are 14-3-1 ATS as a road underdog, while the Thunder are 6-1 ATS as a favorite.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on the best plays anywhere and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports take care of you all season long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks at Oklahoma City Thunder Monday, 12\/27\/10, 8:00 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 204.5 Current Total:\u00a0 203.5 Dallas brings an NBA-best 10-1 road record into tonight\u2019s contest against Oklahoma City and will be looking to pick up its 17th win in 18 games.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3564,19,20,1193,399,3693],"class_list":["post-11914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-caron-butler","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-kevin-durant","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914","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=11914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11916,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions\/11916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}