{"id":21427,"date":"2012-02-01T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T21:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21427"},"modified":"2012-02-01T14:44:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T19:44:44","slug":"clippers-vs-jazz-nba-western-conference-rivals-meet-in-salt-lake-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/clippers-vs-jazz-nba-western-conference-rivals-meet-in-salt-lake-city-21427\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers vs. Jazz: NBA Western Conference Rivals Meet in Salt Lake City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Clippers at Utah Jazz
\nWednesday, 2\/1\/12, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 193
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 196
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Utah Jazz have won 16 consecutive home games against the Los Angeles Clippers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Los Angeles has won three straight games and heads out on the road looking to snap a five-game losing streak against the Utah Jazz.\u00a0 The Clippers suffered a 108-79 defeat to the Jazz as four-point road underdogs on Jan. 17, while going \u201cunder\u201d the posted total of 190.5 in that contest.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is shooting 50 percent from the field and averaging 106.3 points per game during its win streak, but point guard Chris Paul hasn\u2019t bought into all the media hype surrounding his new team.\u00a0 \u201cWe can\u2019t say that we\u2019ve arrived after this game,\u201d Paul stated after the Clippers 112-100 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 2-5 ATS as a road favorite of three points or less the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Clippers will be aiming to win in Salt Lake City for the first time in over nine years, capturing a 96-89 victory on Jan. 22, 2003.\u00a0 It\u2019s safe to say that nobody inside the team\u2019s locker room was on the roster at that time, but it\u2019s still significant in handicapping this Western Conference affair.\u00a0 Paul led the squad with 26 points versus Oklahoma City and will try to dish the ball to power forward Blake Griffin, who has been the talk of the league since dunking on Kendrick Perkins Monday night.<\/p>\n

Utah will look to close out a perfect three-game homestand in already picking up victories over the Sacramento Kings and Portland Trail Blazers.\u00a0 The Jazz have a great chance of capturing a victory as a home underdog tonight, winning the last 16 games against the Clippers inside EnergySolutions Arena by an average of 13.9 points per game.\u00a0 Head coach Tyrone Corbin was pleased with his roster\u2019s performance last time out against Portland, picking up a four-point win despite missing two starters.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s no quit in this group of guys,\u201d he commented after the game.\u00a0 Utah is 2-1 ATS as a home underdog of three points or less this season.<\/p>\n

The Jazz were very pleased with forward Paul Millsap\u2019s recent performance against the Trail Blazers, scoring 19 points and grabbing 15 rebounds in matching up potential All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge.\u00a0 He scored a team-high 20 points in the earlier meeting against Los Angeles in tonight\u2019s venue, while the bench outscored the Clippers by a 54-32 margin.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Jazz due to their 4-1 ATS mark as a home underdog of 4.5 points or less, while the Clippers are 2-6-1 ATS as a road favorite in that point range.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Clippers at Utah Jazz Wednesday, 2\/1\/12, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 193 Current Total:\u00a0 196 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Los Angeles has won three straight games and heads out on the road looking to snap a five-game losing streak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[749,837,3652,1371,18,3784,838,3693],"class_list":["post-21427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-blake-griffin","tag-chris-paul","tag-energysolutions-arena","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-nba","tag-paul-millsap","tag-utah-jazz","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427","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=21427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21429,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427\/revisions\/21429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}