{"id":13439,"date":"2011-02-17T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13439"},"modified":"2011-02-17T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T17:23:08","slug":"desert-showdown-in-phoenix-mavericks-vs-suns-pro-basketball-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/desert-showdown-in-phoenix-mavericks-vs-suns-pro-basketball-betting-preview-13439\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Showdown in Phoenix: Mavericks vs Suns Pro Basketball Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks at Phoenix Suns
\nThursday, 2\/17\/11, 10:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Phoenix -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 207
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 207.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dallas has moved from a slight road underdog to a favorite overnight heading into Phoenix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dallas will look to earn its 13th win in 14 games Thursday night and hope that it can continue riding the momentum after the All-Star break.\u00a0 The Mavericks are coming off a solid 116-110 win over the Kings and will now aim to improve on their 5-1 record against the Suns in the last six meetings.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t know if I envisioned eight guys in double figures, but we wanted to win the game,\u201d said coach Rich Carlisle about the Sacramento win.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s always good when you keep the minutes reasonable heading into a back-to-back, so there were positives.\u201d\u00a0 The team is 39-16 overall and has posted an 18-8 mark away from home.\u00a0 Dallas is 17-9 ATS on the road this season and the NBA lines page is a must watch due to line movement on this particular contest.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks have won seven of the last nine meetings with the Suns, but have dropped 17 of the last 25 match-ups in Phoenix.\u00a0 Dallas picked up a 106-91 home victory in this year\u2019s first meeting, led by All-Star forward Dirk Nowitzki\u2019s game-high-tying 18 points.\u00a0 Both teams got off to slow starts, with Dallas shooting 39.1 percent in the first quarter and Phoenix checking in at 40.9.\u00a0 The squad can record its 40th win before the All-Star break with a victory tonight, which would be a dramatic improvement from the 32-20 mark the club had at this point during the 2009-10 campaign.<\/p>\n

Phoenix sits just a game above the .500 mark heading into the final game before the break and will look to improve its home record to 17-12 with a win tonight.\u00a0 The Suns have won seven of their last nine games after defeating Utah in back-to-back contests, while Channing Frye has become a force on the perimeter.\u00a0 \u201cI guess I got to do the playground thing and tell them when the guy is hot we need to try and find him,\u201d said coach Alvin Gentry.\u00a0 The team is 10-1 when he makes more than three 3-pointers in a contest.\u00a0 Phoenix is 24-28 ATS on the season and 62-54 ATS at home the past three years.<\/p>\n

The Suns are facing one of two teams in the Western Conference that they have yet to defeat this year, with the other being the Spurs.\u00a0 Only three NBA teams own a better record than Phoenix\u2019s 12-5 mark since January 12.\u00a0 Phoenix is 9-13 versus Dallas since point guard Steve Nash left his former team and returned to the Valley of the Sun prior to the 2004-05 season.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the club has won six of its last seven games against teams possessing a winning record.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Suns due to the home team being 4-1 ATS in the last five meetings, while the Mavericks are 13-37-1 ATS on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on all the action tonight and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks at Phoenix Suns Thursday, 2\/17\/11, 10:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Phoenix -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 207 Current Total:\u00a0 207.5 Dallas will look to earn its 13th win in 14 games Thursday night and hope that it can continue riding the momentum after the All-Star break.\u00a0 The […]<\/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":[19,20,577,576],"class_list":["post-13439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-steve-nash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13439","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=13439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13441,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13439\/revisions\/13441"}],"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=13439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}