{"id":20948,"date":"2012-01-09T12:04:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T17:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20948"},"modified":"2012-01-09T12:04:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T17:04:50","slug":"pro-basketball-odds-new-orleans-hornets-vs-denver-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-basketball-odds-new-orleans-hornets-vs-denver-nuggets-20948\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Basketball Odds: New Orleans Hornets vs. Denver Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Hornets at Denver Nuggets
\nMonday, 1\/9\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -13.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -13
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 191.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 192.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Denver Nuggets are led by point guard Ty Lawson offensively<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Orleans has lost six consecutive games and will end its two-game road trip Monday night in the Mile High City.\u00a0 The Hornets have also tallied a dismal 1-5 ATS record during their recent losing streak.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s difficult.\u00a0 It\u2019s part of the season, part of the grind,\u201d stated Hornets guard Jarrett Jack.\u00a0 \u201cGetting healthy is part of it.\u201d\u00a0 The team has been playing without the services of key players for most of the year, including Eric Gordon who is out for awhile with a knee injury.\u00a0 New Orleans is 0-3 ATS after three or more consecutive losses.<\/p>\n

The Hornets have held seven of their first eight opponents under 100 points this season and ranks ninth in the NBA in allowing just 92.3 points per game.\u00a0 New Orleans also ranks fourth in the league in grabbing 45.8 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Part of the success on the glass is due to Emeka Okafor and Chris Kaman in the middle, leading the team with 8.0 and 7.9 rebounds per game respectively.\u00a0 Jack is leading the team in scoring 16.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Denver has won four of its last five games and returns home to open up a four-game homestand after splitting a two contests on the road.\u00a0 \u201cWe have the chance to have a really good team,\u201d stated Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve just got to be more ready, more focused when we come out to start the game.\u201d\u00a0 The Nuggets are averaging 112.5 points while winning 16 of their last 17 games inside the Pepsi Center.\u00a0 Four of the five starters are averaging double figures in scoring, as Gallinari leads all players on the roster in averaging 16.9 points per game.\u00a0 Denver is 3-0 ATS versus Southwest division opponents.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are 5-5 versus the Hornets in their last 10 meetings inside tonight\u2019s venue, \u00a0 dropping a 96-87 affair as 5.5-point favorites during the 2010-11 campaign.\u00a0 Denver should definitely cruise to victory in this contest, as New Orleans is averaging a Western Conference-low 86.5 points per game.\u00a0 Head coach George Karl has a deep bench to play with on a nightly basis.\u00a0 \u201cI petitioned the league to play a 60-minute game so I can get everybody minutes,\u201d he stated this week in practice.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Nuggets due to their 8-0-1 ATS mark as a home favorite of 11 points or more, while the Hornets are 1-4 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

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New Orleans Hornets at Denver Nuggets Monday, 1\/9\/12, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -13.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -13 Opening Total:\u00a0 191.5 Current Total:\u00a0 192.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New Orleans has lost six consecutive games and will end its two-game road trip Monday night in the Mile High City.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3346,212,526,3594,836,3637,3693],"class_list":["post-20948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chris-kaman","tag-danilo-gallinari","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-emeka-okafor","tag-new-orleans-hornets","tag-pepsi-center","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20948","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=20948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20949,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20948\/revisions\/20949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}