{"id":12784,"date":"2011-01-26T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12784"},"modified":"2011-01-26T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T16:24:07","slug":"eastern-conference-betting-philadelphia-76ers-at-toronto-raptors-free-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/eastern-conference-betting-philadelphia-76ers-at-toronto-raptors-free-picks-12784\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Conference Betting: Philadelphia 76ers at Toronto Raptors Free Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers at Toronto Raptors
\nWednesday, 1\/26\/10, 7:00 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 199
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 200<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Toronto Raptors have been dealing with major injury problems and enter Wednesday's game as a home underdog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Philadelphia topped the 100-point mark for the first time in nearly two weeks with a 105-95 win on Monday night over Phoenix and now looks to improve upon a dismal 5-18 road record against Toronto.\u00a0 The Sixers are led by the talents of forward Andre Iguodala, who is the team\u2019s best all-around player.\u00a0 \u201cMy feeling is that, as we continue to get better, Andre is going to get more and more recognition,\u201d said coach Doug Collins.\u00a0 \u201cTo me, he is a triple-double guy.\u201d\u00a0 The team will need him to shine in tonight\u2019s contest due to the club dropping six of the past seven meetings between the Raptors.\u00a0 Philadelphia has allowed Toronto to score 100-plus points in seven of the last eight meetings in the series.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 14-8 ATS on the road this season and currently favored on the NBA lines page.<\/p>\n

The Sixers dropped the first meeting of the season with a 94-86 loss at the Wells Fargo Center on November 17, 2010, despite outscoring the Raptors 56-38 in the paint.\u00a0 Philadelphia enters tonight looking to win three straight for just the second time this season, but it will be tough to come by due to the squad dropping five straight on the road.\u00a0 This is the final road game of the month for Philly which has two more home games left to close out January.\u00a0 Since starting the season 3-13, the Sixers have gone 16-12.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that 12 of Philadelphia\u2019s 19 wins have been by double-digits.<\/p>\n

Toronto has lost eight consecutive games and it currently stands as the team\u2019s longest such streak since dropping 10 in a row from March 26-April 12 during the 2005-06 season.\u00a0 During Monday\u2019s games versus Memphis the Raptors had nine of its 15 players on the roster available to play.\u00a0 \u201cI think they care,\u201d said coach Jay Triano.\u00a0 \u201cThey like each other and they care and they want to be coached and they want to work hard.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think you can ask for more than that.\u201d\u00a0 Players have missed 133 games this season due to injury.\u00a0 Toronto is 6-10 ATS as a home underdog of 3.5 to 6 points over the past three years.<\/p>\n

The Raptors will undoubtedly be led by the scoring of center Andrea Bargnani, who has scored at least 28 points in the past two games.\u00a0 Toronto will also be looking for DeMar DeRozan to pitch in due to averaging 24.4 points over the past five games.\u00a0 The duo combined for 54 points in its latest 100-98 loss to the Grizzlies, as every other Toronto starter was also in double-figures.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in backing the Raptors due to their 6-1 ATS mark in the last seven meetings, while the Sixers are 3-9 ATS as a road favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers at Toronto Raptors Wednesday, 1\/26\/10, 7:00 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 199 Current Total:\u00a0 200 Philadelphia topped the 100-point mark for the first time in nearly two weeks with a 105-95 win on Monday night over Phoenix and now looks to improve upon a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1183,57,1339,175,832,693],"class_list":["post-12784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-andrea-bargnani","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-demar-derozan","tag-doug-collins","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784","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=12784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12785,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12784\/revisions\/12785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}