{"id":12592,"date":"2011-01-19T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12592"},"modified":"2011-01-19T12:05:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:05:54","slug":"pro-basketball-picks-los-angeles-lakers-at-dallas-mavericks-expert-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-basketball-picks-los-angeles-lakers-at-dallas-mavericks-expert-predictions-12592\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Basketball Picks: Los Angeles Lakers at Dallas Mavericks Expert Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers at Dallas Mavericks
\nWednesday, 1\/19\/10, 9:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 190
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 190.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Dallas Mavericks are home underdogs in welcoming in the two-time defending champions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Los Angeles has won eight of the last 10 meetings against Dallas and that particular success is surprising due to star Kobe Bryant averaging just 16.3 points in the last four meetings.\u00a0 The Lakers are 14-7 on the road this season and have posted a 7-6 mark away from the Staples Center against Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve been playing better,\u201d coach Phil Jackson stated as his team prepares for a third game in four nights.\u00a0 \u201cWe know that we\u2019ve got ways to improve, things to do, but our intensity was right on a back-to-back night.\u201d\u00a0 The team is coming off a solid 101-94 home win over Oklahoma City, as the defense held Thunder star Kevin Durant to 8-of-24 shooting.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 19-24 ATS on the season and currently a slight road favorite on the NBA lines page for Wednesday\u2019s contest.<\/p>\n

The Lakers and Mavericks split last season\u2019s series 2-2 after completing a 3-0 sweep in the series during the 2008-09 campaign.\u00a0 Los Angeles holds a 95-30 all-time series advantage between the two franchises.\u00a0 In Dallas, the team has gone 5-5 over the last 10 games at American Airlines Center and are 26-12 overall against them under the guidance of Jackson.\u00a0 Los Angeles has still won seven of its last eight games and now will face a challenging schedule starting with tonight\u2019s game and then contests against Denver and Utah.<\/p>\n

Dallas is looking to avoid its longest losing streak in 12 years and is coming off a 103-89 loss to Detroit to end a winless four-game road trip.\u00a0 \u201cOur competitive level has to come up, it is as simple as that,\u201d said coach Rick Carlisle.\u00a0 \u201cThat just wasn\u2019t acceptable.\u201d\u00a0 The only good news for the Mavericks in that particular loss was receiving 32 points from star forward Dirk Nowitzki, who is starting to find his groove after missing nine games with a sprained knee.\u00a0 The team has still managed to score an NBA-worst 89.4 points per game over the last 11 games.\u00a0 Dallas is 1-5 ATS as a home underdog of 3.5 to 6 points the last three years and 41-66 ATS at home over that same span.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are 14-8 overall at home and have captured an 8-4 record against Western Conference opponents at tonight\u2019s venue.\u00a0 Carlisle is just 7-12 all-time against the Lakers and Nowitzki managed to averaging a double-double (26.0 points, 10.8 rebounds) against them last season.\u00a0 The team\u2019s recent woes is extremely rare considering only the Spurs have gone longer in avoiding a six-game losing streak.\u00a0 After winning 17-of-18 and improving to 24-5 on the year, the Mavericks are just 2-9 in their last 11 games.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in backing the Lakers due to the road team being 9-2-1 ATS in the last 12 meetings, while the Mavericks are 0-6 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

The NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports are on fire and ready for you to join them for a huge night.\u00a0 Don\u2019t miss out and get a season package today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers at Dallas Mavericks Wednesday, 1\/19\/10, 9:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 190 Current Total:\u00a0 190.5 Los Angeles has won eight of the last 10 meetings against Dallas and that particular success is surprising due to star Kobe Bryant averaging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[19,20,67,68,939,3693],"class_list":["post-12592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-phil-jackson","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592","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=12592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12594,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592\/revisions\/12594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}