{"id":21895,"date":"2012-02-29T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21895"},"modified":"2012-02-29T11:30:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T16:30:53","slug":"nba-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-philadelphia-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-philadelphia-76ers-21895\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Philadelphia 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at Philadelphia 76ers
\nWednesday, 2\/29\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSP
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 191
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 190
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma City Thunder are led by Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma City will kick off a three-game road trip with a trip to Philadelphia, as the team rattled off five consecutive wins before the All-Star break by managing to score 100 or more points in each game.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve just started to jell,\u201d commented Thunder forward Kevin Durant.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m glad we\u2019re getting better as a group.\u201d\u00a0 The Thunder are 11-3 in the month of February and come in with a 12-6 road record, which includes a 2-1 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 10-8 ATS on the road this season.<\/p>\n

The Thunder have tallied a dominating 28-9 record against Eastern Conference opponents since the start of the 2010-11 season, including a 6-1 mark this year.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is led by its pair of All-Stars in Durant and point guard Russell Westbrook, as they combined for 57 points in leading the West to a 152-149 victory.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is managing to score 102.7 points per game, which could move higher at the end of this affair.\u00a0 The team has averaged 111.8 points in its last four meetings with the 76ers.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia snapped a five-game losing streak in tallying a 97-68 victory over the Detroit Pistons last night as 3.5-point road favorites, while going \u201cunder\u201d the total in five consecutive games.\u00a0 The 76ers will be led offensively by point guard Jrue Holiday in this contest, as he averaged a team-best 19.5 points in last season\u2019s series.\u00a0 Forward Andre Iguodala is also someone to take notice of, coming off his first All-Star appearance for the Eastern Conference, scoring 12 points in 14 minutes.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 12-7 ATS at home and the \u201cunder\u201d is 14-5 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The 76ers have lost six of the past seven games in this series, but have score 100 or more points in three of the four games.\u00a0 Philadelphia is just 3-7 in its past 10 games, but really broke out of a shooting funk last night.\u00a0 Offensively, the team was managing to score just 86.7 points on 40.7 percent shooting in its previous nine games.\u00a0 Holiday has been hot of late, hitting 26 of 55 field goals in the last four games after hitting just 1 of 17 shots in the previous two contests.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Thunder due to their 34-16-1 ATS mark as a road favorite of 4.5 points or less, while the 76ers are 0-6 ATS versus Western Conference opponents.<\/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 Philadelphia 76ers Wednesday, 2\/29\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSP Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 191 Current Total:\u00a0 190 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma City will kick off a three-game road trip with a trip to Philadelphia, as the team rattled off five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3181,3622,943,1193,399,832,3298],"class_list":["post-21895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-andre-iguodala","tag-eastern-conference","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-kevin-durant","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-russell-westbrook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21895","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=21895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21896,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21895\/revisions\/21896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}