{"id":14886,"date":"2011-04-13T00:38:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=14886"},"modified":"2011-04-13T10:03:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T15:03:37","slug":"western-conference-betting-mavs-hornets-battle-for-playoff-seeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/western-conference-betting-mavs-hornets-battle-for-playoff-seeding-14886\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Conference Betting: Mavs, Hornets battle for playoff seeding"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Hornets at Dallas Mavericks, American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX<\/strong>
\nWednesday, April 13, 2011, 8:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN<\/strong>
\nOpening Line: Mavs -9<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line: Mavs -11<\/strong>
\nOpening Total: 189.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 186.5<\/strong>
\nMoney Line: Mavs -700 \/ Hornets +500
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mavericks
Dallas star Dirk Nowitzki has averaged nearly 27 points in three meetings with New Orleans this season.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The New Orleans Hornets (46-35) visit the Dallas Mavericks (56-25) on Wednesday with both teams still fighting for playoff positioning. \u00a0The Mavericks (-11) could still earn the second seed in the West with a win and a loss by the Los Angeles Lakers at Sacramento while the Hornets need a victory and a loss by Memphis against the Clippers to avoid the eighth and final spot.<\/p>\n

Even though the teams will not play each other in the first round of the postseason, this will serve as a playoff game of sorts since it will be one of the few games on the slate with anything on the line.\u00a0 New Orleans has dropped its last two games both straight-up and against the spread and seemed to be headed for the sixth seed until leading scorer and rebounder David West got hurt.\u00a0 West recently underwent successful surgery on his left knee.\u00a0 The Hornets are 5-4 without him.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Dallas has won three in a row both SU and ATS since a four-game losing streak that almost killed the team\u2019s chances of getting the #2 seed.\u00a0 The Lakers had helped them out by losing five straight before beating San Antonio 102-93 on Tuesday, but they still own the tiebreaker since they won the regular-season series.<\/p>\n

With West on the floor for New Orleans, these teams were fairly even in their three meetings this year.\u00a0 All three were decided by three points or less with the Hornets winning the last two by a combined three points.\u00a0 Jarrett Jack led them to a 93-92 victory in the latest meeting on March 9, scoring 21 points and dishing out seven assists while filling in for the injured Chris Paul.\u00a0 Dirk Nowitzki averaged nearly 27 points in the three games for the Mavs and has totaled 20 or more in three of four overall.<\/p>\n

The OVER has cashed in four of the last five meetings along with six of eight, although neither team has reached the century mark in the past three.\u00a0 New Orleans has failed to reach 90 points in the last two games after scoring more than 100 in the previous three.\u00a0 Dallas has held its last three opponents to an average of 92 points with the UNDER cashing twice.<\/p>\n

If you are betting this NBA game between the Mavs & Hornets, be sure to check out the winning NBA picks packages we offer.\u00a0 You can also get free winners on our free NBA picks page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Hornets at Dallas Mavericks, American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 8:00 pm Eastern, TV: ESPN Opening Line: Mavs -9 Current Line: Mavs -11 Opening Total: 189.5 Current Total: 186.5 Money Line: Mavs -700 \/ Hornets +500 The New Orleans Hornets (46-35) visit the Dallas Mavericks (56-25) on Wednesday with both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":9365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[19,1492,4438,4851,4439,1985,836,4440],"class_list":["post-14886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-espn","tag-free-pro-basketball-pick","tag-mavericks-hornets-preview","tag-nba-basketball-odds","tag-nba-picks","tag-new-orleans-hornets","tag-pro-basketball-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886","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\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14888,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions\/14888"}],"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=14886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}