{"id":13729,"date":"2011-02-28T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T14:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13729"},"modified":"2011-02-28T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T14:21:18","slug":"high-altitude-handicapping-atlanta-hawks-at-denver-nuggets-pro-basketball-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/high-altitude-handicapping-atlanta-hawks-at-denver-nuggets-pro-basketball-picks-13729\/","title":{"rendered":"High Altitude Handicapping: Atlanta Hawks at Denver Nuggets Pro Basketball Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Hawks at Denver Nuggets
\nMonday, 2\/28\/11, 9:00 PM EDT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -5.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -6
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 200.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 201.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Atlanta Hawks are coming off an impressive road win in Portland and now face the new-look Denver Nuggets at the Pepsi Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Atlanta has been a solid road team the entire year and enter Monday\u2019s contest in Denver having the second-most road victories in the NBA, including a 90-83 win Sunday in Portland.\u00a0 \u201cI think we had more energy tonight,\u201d said guard Jamal Crawford.\u00a0 \u201cOur starters set the tone and our bench just picked it up from there.\u201d\u00a0 The team is now 19-14 away from home on the season and 7-6 against Western Conference opponents in that particular situation.\u00a0 It\u2019s the best record through 33 road games in team history and the squad is likely to finish over .500 away from Philips Arena for the first time since the 1997-98 campaign.\u00a0 Atlanta is 11-9 ATS as an underdog this season and currently getting points on the NBA lines page.<\/p>\n

The Hawks have been remarkably consistent over the last 14 months, producing a winning record in every one of them.\u00a0 The streak is the longest in franchise history, surpassing 12 straight from January 1996 to November 1997.\u00a0 Many NBA experts were interested to see if trading Mike Bibby, Mo Evans and Jordan Crawford would affect team chemistry at Thursday\u2019s trade deadline, but the team has been on the mark since.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re just playing right now,\u201d said Josh Smith.\u00a0 \u201cChange can be a good thing sometimes.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been through it before and come back just fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Denver dropped a 107-106 contest to Portland on Friday and will now return home aiming for a fifth consecutive victory at the Pepsi Center.\u00a0 \u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel good because we lost, but we put up a good fight and had a great effort,\u201d said Danilo Galinari, who came over in the Carmelo Anthony trade with the Knicks.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s tough to lose at the end.\u201d\u00a0 The Nuggets are 24-7 at home on the season, including a 9-1 record against Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Denver is 3-3 ATS on the season when playing on two days rest and 15-13 ATS in that particular situation the past three years.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets will be playing the Hawks for the first time this season, marking the last team that the club has yet to face on the year.\u00a0 Overall this series has been dead-even since 2003-04, with both teams winning seven games, splitting the season series the last five years.\u00a0 Denver has won five of the last six games in the Mile High City.\u00a0 Head coach George Karl has been thoroughly pleased with his team\u2019s effort since the Anthony trade and is hoping the momentum carries over to tonight\u2019s contest.\u00a0 \u201cMy thing is, we probably got better Friday more than we did Thursday and that\u2019s exciting,\u201d he commented.\u00a0 \u201cYou don\u2019t like losing, but as much as Thursday was a great win, Friday was a good loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in backing the Hawks due to their 6-2 ATS mark with zero day\u2019s rest, while the Nuggets are 3-7 ATS in the last 10 meetings in Denver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Hawks at Denver Nuggets Monday, 2\/28\/11, 9:00 PM EDT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -5.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -6 Opening Total:\u00a0 200.5 Current Total:\u00a0 201.5 Atlanta has been a solid road team the entire year and enter Monday\u2019s contest in Denver having the second-most road victories in the NBA, including a 90-83 win Sunday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[834,49,526,3636,3637,3693],"class_list":["post-13729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-george-karl","tag-pepsi-center","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729","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=13729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13731,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729\/revisions\/13731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}