{"id":21410,"date":"2012-02-01T11:16:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21410"},"modified":"2012-02-01T11:16:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T16:16:44","slug":"nba-predictions-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-dallas-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-predictions-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-dallas-mavericks-21410\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Predictions: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Dallas Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at Dallas Mavericks
\nWednesday, 2\/1\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 196
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 197.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma City Thunder have the NBA's best road record<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma City closes out a three-game road trip Wednesday night and will look to bounce back from a disappointing 112-100 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers as two-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Thunder have also gone \u201cover\u201d the total in three consecutive contests.\u00a0 \u201cThis is our first bad game in 20,\u201d commented Thunder head coach Scott Brooks about the team\u2019s latest effort.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s the bottom line, we had a bad game.\u201d\u00a0 The team is still 8-3 on the road this season, including a 6-2 mark versus Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 13-9 ATS in February the last two seasons.<\/p>\n

The Thunder are certainly hoping that guard Thabo Sefolosha returns to the lineup, as they are 0-2 when he doesn\u2019t appear in a game.\u00a0 He has been suffering from soreness in his right foot.\u00a0 Oklahoma City\u2019s road record is still the best in the NBA, which is even more impressive when considering that no other Western Conference team has won more than five games away from home this year.\u00a0 The Thunder dropped a 100-87 decision to the Mavericks in their first meeting this year inside the American Airlines Center on Jan. 2.<\/p>\n

Dallas has won three games in a row and comes in as one of the hottest offensive teams in the league, scoring at least 101 points in each of those contests.\u00a0 The Mavericks have gone \u201cover\u201d the total in four consecutive games, coming off a 122-point performance on the road against the Phoenix Suns.\u00a0 Forward Dirk Nowitzki figures to have a solid offensive game tonight, scoring a combined 55 points in two games versus the Thunder already this year.\u00a0 Dallas is 8-3 ATS as a home favorite of three points or less the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks have won 24 of their last 32 regular-season games versus the Thunder franchise, as the two teams have split the first two meetings this year.\u00a0 Dallas has been successful in this series at home due to limiting Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant on the offensive end, holding him to a 19.8-point scoring average inside tonight\u2019s venue during regular-season affairs, which is his worst mark of any place in the Western Conference.\u00a0 Dallas point guard Jason Kidd is out with a calf injury and will be replaced by third-year guard Rodrigue Beaubois.\u00a0 He scored eight points and dished out seven assists for a third consecutive game last time out.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Thunder due to their 8-2-1 ATS mark in Dallas, while the Mavericks are 0-4 ATS following a spread victory.<\/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":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at Dallas Mavericks Wednesday, 2\/1\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 196 Current Total:\u00a0 197.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma City closes out a three-game road trip Wednesday night and will look to bounce back from a disappointing 112-100 loss to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3920,19,20,1193,18,399,3693],"class_list":["post-21410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-american-airlines-center","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-kevin-durant","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21410","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=21410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21411,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21410\/revisions\/21411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}