{"id":21478,"date":"2012-02-03T13:48:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21478"},"modified":"2012-02-03T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T18:48:37","slug":"oklahoma-city-thunder-kevin-durant-and-russell-westbrook-face-the-memphis-grizzlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/oklahoma-city-thunder-kevin-durant-and-russell-westbrook-face-the-memphis-grizzlies-21478\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder: Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook Face the Memphis Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memphis Grizzlies at Oklahoma City Thunder
\nFriday, 2\/3\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSOK
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -9
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -9
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 192.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 192.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma City Thunder possess the NBA's best record heading into the weekend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Memphis travels to Oklahoma City on a two-game winning streak that includes an impressive 96-77 win over the Atlanta Hawks as 4.5-point road underdogs.\u00a0 The Grizzlies will be seeking revenge for a pair of home losses against the Thunder already this season.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging just 86.7 points and shooting 42.5 percent from the floor on the road, which doesn\u2019t bode well when facing a team with the NBA\u2019s best record heading into the weekend.\u00a0 Memphis is 0-3 ATS as a road underdog of 6.5 to 9 points this season.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies have failed to score 100 points or more on the road this season, while forward Rudy Gay has scored just 35 combined points in two meetings with the Thunder.\u00a0 Memphis has played relatively well without the services of power forward Zach Randolph, entering tonight\u2019s game with an 11-7 record in that situation.\u00a0 The youthful roster will need to avoid a letdown against Oklahoma City, which may come after winning in Atlanta for the first time since November 2005.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City returns home after a successful 2-1 road trip that finished with a convincing 95-86 win over the Dallas Mavericks as one-point underdogs.\u00a0 The Thunder have gone \u201cover\u201d the total in three of their last four contests, averaging 100.1 points per game this season.\u00a0 Stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook continue to be one of the best one-two punches in the NBA, scoring 26.6 and 21.9 points per game respectively.\u00a0 The two combined for 56 points against the Mavericks.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 25-11 ATS on Friday nights the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Thunder are 17-4 overall and 8-1 at home this season, which includes a 5-1 mark versus Western Conference teams inside Chesapeake Energy Arena.\u00a0 Oklahoma City has been much better on the defensive end this year through 21 games, allowing 94.6 points on 42.2 percent shooting, which is a vast improvement from surrendering 103.6 points per contest in the same time period a year ago.\u00a0 The team has won 10 straight games in front of the home fans when holding opponent to 100 points or less.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Thunder due to their 6-1 ATS mark as a home favorite of 5 to 10.5 points, while the Grizzlies are 0-7 ATS in the same point range as an underdog.<\/p>\n

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Memphis Grizzlies at Oklahoma City Thunder Friday, 2\/3\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSOK Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -9 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -9 Opening Total:\u00a0 192.5 Current Total:\u00a0 192.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Memphis travels to Oklahoma City on a two-game winning streak that includes an impressive 96-77 win over the Atlanta Hawks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1193,3354,18,399,2068,3298],"class_list":["post-21478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-kevin-durant","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-rudy-gay","tag-russell-westbrook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478","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=21478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21479,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478\/revisions\/21479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}