{"id":13195,"date":"2011-02-08T13:51:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T18:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13195"},"modified":"2011-02-08T13:51:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T18:51:41","slug":"griffin-vs-howard-los-angeles-clippers-at-orlando-magic-free-nba-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/griffin-vs-howard-los-angeles-clippers-at-orlando-magic-free-nba-picks-13195\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin vs Howard: Los Angeles Clippers at Orlando Magic Free NBA Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Clippers at Orlando Magic
\nTuesday, 2\/8\/11, 7:00 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Orlando -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Orlando -9.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 201.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 202.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Orlando Magic look to bounce back from a disappointing effort and take out their frustrations on the Los Angeles Clippers Tuesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Los Angeles hopes to give a better effort than Sunday\u2019s 97-79 loss to Miami and gain revenge from an earlier loss to Orlando.\u00a0 \u201cWe just weren\u2019t very sharp and weren\u2019t good offensively,\u201d coach Vinny Del Negro stated.\u00a0 \u201cThe guys battled.\u00a0 Our bench was poor today.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t get anything from the bench, which really hurt us.\u201d\u00a0 The Clippers should be welcoming back Eric Gordon, Chris Kaman and Craig Smith relatively soon, which will add to the depth of the playing rotation.\u00a0 Gordon is especially important to the team\u2019s success due to being the leading scorer at 24.1 points per night.\u00a0 Carrying the offense at this moment in time is rookie Blake Griffin, who has compiled 42 double-double efforts and currently averaging 22.9 points.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 16-18 ATS as an underdog this season and nearly a double-digit favorite on the NBA lines page tonight.<\/p>\n

The Clippers enter with a 19-31 overall record, including a 2-4 mark on the road against the Eastern Conference.\u00a0 Los Angeles has lost eight games in a row to Orlando and its last win in tonight\u2019s city came back on February 1, 2006.\u00a0 The team dropped the first meeting of the season, 94-85, with Gordon managing to score 28 points in a losing effort.\u00a0 Tonight will be the third game of a 14-day, eight-game road trip that will see them travel a total of 6,510 miles before returning to Los Angeles for the NBA All-Star break.\u00a0 The Clippers will be playing 21 of their remaining 32 games on the road.<\/p>\n

Orlando must try and bounce back from a disappointing 91-80 loss to Eastern Conference-leading Boston.\u00a0 The Magic connected on just 3 of 24 shots from 3-point range and slipped 1 1\/2 games behind Atlanta for fourth place in the conference.\u00a0 \u201cThe Miami Heat and Boston are rolling right now,\u201d said All-Star center Dwight Howard.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re going to be OK.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got things we\u2019ve got to work on.\u201d\u00a0 He managed to score 28 points and grab 13 points in the latest defeat and many in the organization are starting to question the trade that was made to acquire Gilbert Arenas.\u00a0 He missed all seven of his shots in 15 minutes against the Celtics on Sunday.\u00a0 Orlando is 20-6 ATS versus Pacific division teams over the past three years.<\/p>\n

The Magic have won nine of the last 12 meetings at home in this particular series and won both games during the 2009-10 campaign.\u00a0 Orlando is currently 18-7 at home this season during its first year at the new Amway Center.\u00a0 The average margin of victory for the club at its new venue currently stands at 16.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors may elect to back the Magic due to their 8-1 ATS mark as a favorite of 5.0 to 10.5 points, while the Clippers are 1-5 ATS as a road underdog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Clippers at Orlando Magic Tuesday, 2\/8\/11, 7:00 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Orlando -9.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Orlando -9.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 201.5 Current Total:\u00a0 202.5 Los Angeles hopes to give a better effort than Sunday\u2019s 97-79 loss to Miami and gain revenge from an earlier loss to Orlando.\u00a0 \u201cWe just weren\u2019t very sharp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[749,833,2933,1371,659],"class_list":["post-13195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-blake-griffin","tag-dwight-howard","tag-eric-gordon","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-orlando-magic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13195","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=13195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13199,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13195\/revisions\/13199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}