{"id":21143,"date":"2012-01-18T15:41:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T20:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21143"},"modified":"2012-01-18T15:41:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T20:41:55","slug":"nba-betting-preview-denver-nuggets-vs-philadelphia-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-betting-preview-denver-nuggets-vs-philadelphia-76ers-21143\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Preview: Denver Nuggets vs. Philadelphia 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver Nuggets at Philadelphia 76ers
\nWednesday, 1\/18\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSP
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 201
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 203.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Philadelphia 76ers will put their perfect home record on the line Wednesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Denver has won three of its last four games and comes off a 105-95 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks as three-point road favorites last night.\u00a0 \u201cOur mental approach to the game was much, much better to start the game, especially on the defensive end,\u201d commented Nuggets guard Aaron Afflalo.\u00a0 The Nuggets are averaging 104.1 points per game, second in the NBA behind only the Miami Heat.\u00a0 Offensively, the team made 12 three-point shots last night, while assisting on 27 of 32 field goals.\u00a0 Denver is 5-1 ATS on the road this season.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets have won five of their last eight road meetings versus the 76ers, but dropped a 110-99 decision as 1.5-point underdogs in their last such contest on Jan. 30, 2011.\u00a0 Denver picked up an important win last night, especially considering that it began a five-game trip that will take the squad through all three time zones.\u00a0 The starting five has four players averaging in double figures, with the entire group being led by forward Danilo Gallinari, who is scoring 16.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has won and covered its last three games since suffering an 85-79 loss to the New York Knicks on Jan. 11.\u00a0 The 76ers have opened up the 2011-12 campaign with six straight home victories for the first time since the 2002-03 season.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m down to win all of them,\u201d commented Sixers guard Jrue Holiday.\u00a0 He scored a game-high 24 points in the team\u2019s latest victory over the Milwaukee Bucks.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 10-1 ATS as a favorite this season and the \u2018under\u2019 is 7-4 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The 76ers currently rank second in the league in allowing just 85.8 points per game, while ranking first in field goal and three-point defense.\u00a0 Philadelphia has outscored its opponents by a total of 194 points through the first 13 games, leading the league in outscoring teams by 15.0 points per game.\u00a0 Defensively, the team has held all six opponents below 90 points inside the Wells Fargo Center, as teams are averaging just 79.5 points per game in that situation.\u00a0 Philadelphia led the league in fewest turnovers a year ago and are currently pacing the NBA in that category this year.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely play the \u2018under\u2019 in this contest due to it cashing in the 76ers last six games as a home favorite of 5 to 10.5 points, while the Nuggets have fallen below the number in 26 of 39 games as a road underdog in that situation.<\/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":"

Denver Nuggets at Philadelphia 76ers Wednesday, 1\/18\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSP Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 201 Current Total:\u00a0 203.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Denver has won three of its last four games and comes off a 105-95 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks as three-point road favorites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[4633,526,943,18,832,6293],"class_list":["post-21143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-aaron-afflalo","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-wells-fargo-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21143","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=21143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21145,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21143\/revisions\/21145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}