{"id":22224,"date":"2012-03-14T09:58:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T14:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=22224"},"modified":"2012-03-14T09:58:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T14:58:26","slug":"nba-picks-philadelphia-76ers-vs-indiana-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-philadelphia-76ers-vs-indiana-pacers-22224\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Philadelphia 76ers vs. Indiana Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers at Indiana Pacers
\nWednesday, 3\/14\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 185
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 185
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Indiana Pacers are set to host the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Philadelphia has won three games in a row by going over the century mark offensively and will finish out a short two-game road trip Wednesday night against Indiana.\u00a0 The 76ers captured a 96-86 win over the Pacers as seven-point home favorites earlier this year in the first meeting.\u00a0 The team\u2019s recent play can be attributed to the rise of Evan Turner, who has started every game during the win streak, averaging 22.0 points and 12.0 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 9-9 ATS on the road this season.<\/p>\n

The 76ers have tallied an even 9-9 record on the road this season, including a 6-4 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Philadelphia has scored 100-plus points in seven of the past nine games versus tonight\u2019s opponent, which has been helped by getting to the line an average of 18.4 times per game in that span.\u00a0 Defensively, the team leads the NBA in allowing just 87.3 points per game.\u00a0 Philadelphia is set to close out the season playing 15 games on the road and just nine more at home.<\/p>\n

Indiana snapped a four-game losing streak with a 92-75 win over the Portland Trail Blazers as 3.5-point home favorites last night.\u00a0 The Pacers are in a bit of a scoring funk despite averaging just 95.0 points per game, as they\u2019ve failed to score 100 or more points in five consecutive games.\u00a0 The defense raised its level of play against the Trail Blazers in holding them to 31.3 percent shooting.\u00a0 \u201cIt was great just to get a win,\u201d commented Pacers center Roy Hibbert.\u00a0 The Pacers are 11-5 at home this season, including a 3-0 mark versus Atlantic division opponents.<\/p>\n

The Pacers face the second game of their first home-home back-to-back of the 2011-12 campaign.\u00a0 Indiana has dropped three of the last four in this Eastern Conference series, but has proven victorious in two of the last three meetings inside Bankers Life Fieldhouse.\u00a0 Getting production from the bench is key in playing on back-to-back nights, which is why last night\u2019s 44 points from the second unit will pay dividends tonight.\u00a0 \u201cOur bench was spectacular,\u201d commented Pacers head coach Frank Vogel.\u00a0 The majority of the team\u2019s starters sat during the fourth quarter when up by 23 points last night.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Pacers due to their 4-1 ATS mark as a favorite, while the 76ers are 1-9 ATS versus teams with a winning record.<\/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":"

Philadelphia 76ers at Indiana Pacers Wednesday, 3\/14\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 185 Current Total:\u00a0 185 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Philadelphia has won three games in a row by going over the century mark offensively and will finish out a short two-game road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[6433,3622,1390,565,18,832,1196],"class_list":["post-22224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-bankers-life-fieldhouse","tag-eastern-conference","tag-evan-turner","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-roy-hibbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224","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=22224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22225,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224\/revisions\/22225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}