{"id":21000,"date":"2012-01-12T12:21:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T17:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21000"},"modified":"2012-01-12T12:21:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T17:21:41","slug":"nba-betting-odds-new-york-knicks-vs-memphis-grizzlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-betting-odds-new-york-knicks-vs-memphis-grizzlies-21000\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Odds: New York Knicks vs. Memphis Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks at Memphis Grizzlies
\nThursday, 1\/12\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Memphis -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Memphis -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 194
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 194
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Memphis Grizzlies C Marc Gasol has been playing a lot of minutes since Zach Randolph went down with a knee injury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York has won four consecutive games and its defense should get plenty of the credit, as each game has gone \u2018under\u2019 the total in that span.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m just excited about the way the defense is playing, because I know coach Mike D\u2019Antoni\u2019s offense, it\u2019s going to get going,\u201d Knicks center Tyson Chandler commented.\u00a0 Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony will be asked to lead the offense in the second game of a back-to-back situation, as he averaged 29.5 points in his two meetings with Memphis in this series a year ago.\u00a0 New York is 8-14 ATS after three or more consecutive \u2018unders\u2019 the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Knicks have been very happy with the recent play of forward Amar\u2019e Stoudemire, who has averaged 23.0 points and 10.8 rebounds in the last five games since missing two with an ankle injury.\u00a0 Chandler will need to up his production on the offensive side, as he grabbed 13 rebounds but failed to make a field goal in over 35 minutes of action last night.<\/p>\n

Memphis has dropped its last three games in straight-up and against-the-spread fashion, including a 100-95 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder as 2.5-point home underdogs on Tuesday night.\u00a0 The Grizzlies are waiting for forward Rudy Gay to regain his shooting touch after missing most of the 2010-11 season due to injury, but he\u2019s hitting just 41.1 percent of his shots through nine games.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m a fan of Rudy and I just can\u2019t wait for him to get it back going,\u201d commented Grizzlies\u2019 teammate Tony Allen.\u00a0 Memphis is 10-6 ATS after three or more consecutive losses.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies lost both games versus the Knicks a year ago after winning both during the 2009-10 campaign.\u00a0 Memphis will be playing the second of a four-game homestand tonight, as it continues to move ahead without the services of Zach Randolph, who is out with a knee injury.\u00a0 Center Marc Gasol is being asked to pick up his production in the paint, scoring at least 20 points in two of the last three games.\u00a0 He played over 42 minutes versus the Thunder last time out and must stay out of foul trouble for this squad to have a chance.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Grizzlies due to their 14-3 ATS mark as a home favorite of 4.5 points or less, while the Knicks are 2-6 ATS when playing with zero days rest.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks at Memphis Grizzlies Thursday, 1\/12\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Memphis -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Memphis -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 194 Current Total:\u00a0 194 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New York has won four consecutive games and its defense should get plenty of the credit, as each game has gone \u2018under\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[49,1318,3354,18,115,2068,699],"class_list":["post-21000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-marc-gasol","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-rudy-gay","tag-tyson-chandler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000","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=21000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21001,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000\/revisions\/21001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}