{"id":22394,"date":"2012-03-19T23:30:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T04:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=22394"},"modified":"2012-03-19T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T22:35:40","slug":"nba-picks-los-angeles-clippers-vs-indiana-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-los-angeles-clippers-vs-indiana-pacers-22394\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Los Angeles Clippers vs. Indiana Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Clippers at Indiana Pacers
\nTuesday, 3\/20\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSIN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 187
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 187
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The home team is 5-0 ATS in the last five games between the Indiana Pacers and Los Angeles Clippers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Los Angeles heads out on the road for a three-game road trip after closing its six-game homestand with back-to-back wins over the Houston Rockets and Detroit Pistons.\u00a0 The Clippers were led by All-Star point guard Chris Paul, who scored a combined 42 points on 30 shots in the two contests.\u00a0 \u201cYou\u2019d be hard-pressed to find a better guy with the ball late in the game than Chris in this league,\u201d commented Clippers head coach Vinny Del Negro.\u00a0 The squad is 11-10 on the road overall, including a 4-2 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 5-1 ATS as a road underdog.<\/p>\n

The Clippers will be playing 20 games in the month of March, which is the most in the NBA for any team in 45 years.\u00a0 Los Angeles will also be playing the opening game of its 12th set of back-to-back games, owning an 8-3 record in the first game and 6-5 mark in the second game.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is scoring 8.8 points per game more in the opening game than the close-out contest.<\/p>\n

Indiana dropped both games of a home-and-home series against the New York Knicks, including a 102-88 defeat as four-point home favorites on Saturday.\u00a0 The Pacers have managed to hit the century mark in just two of their last eight games, but the \u201cunder\u201d is just 4-4 in that span.\u00a0 \u201cOur offense just isn\u2019t working,\u201d stated Pacers forward Danny Granger.\u00a0 He has managed to score in double figures in 29 of the last 31 games.\u00a0 The team is 13-6 at home this season, including a 4-1 mark versus Western Conference foes.\u00a0 Indiana is 5-11 ATS as a favorite.<\/p>\n

The Pacers will be meeting the Clippers just once in this shortened 2011-12 season, as the two franchises have split the season series in each of the past five years.\u00a0 Indiana is 46-28 all-time versus Los Angeles, including a 29-8 mark when playing at home.\u00a0 The locker room is hoping that the acquisition of veteran guard Leandro Barbosa will hope jumpstart the offense, as he comes over from the Toronto Raptors and scored 19 points versus the Clippers as a member of that team on Jan. 22.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Pacers due to the home team covering the last five games in this series, while the Clippers are 0-8 ATS versus Central division opponents.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Clippers at Indiana Pacers Tuesday, 3\/20\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSIN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 187 Current Total:\u00a0 187 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Los Angeles heads out on the road for a three-game road trip after closing its six-game homestand with back-to-back wins over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[837,566,3622,565,1371,18,3693],"class_list":["post-22394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chris-paul","tag-danny-granger","tag-eastern-conference","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-nba","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22394","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=22394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22396,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22394\/revisions\/22396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}