{"id":22437,"date":"2012-03-21T10:04:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=22437"},"modified":"2012-03-21T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T15:04:22","slug":"nba-predictions-los-angeles-lakers-vs-dallas-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-predictions-los-angeles-lakers-vs-dallas-mavericks-22437\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Predictions: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Dallas Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers at Dallas Mavericks
\nWednesday, 3\/21\/12, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 188
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 188
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum has been a force inside during the 2011-12 campaign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Los Angeles suffered a disappointing 107-104 defeat to the Houston Rockets last night as three-point road favorites inside the Toyota Center.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m concerned,\u201d commented Lakers star Kobe Bryant about the team\u2019s latest fourth-quarter collapse. The Lakers might be able to bounce back due to winning both regular-season meetings against the Dallas Mavericks by a combined eight points.\u00a0 Defensively, the team ranks seventh in the NBA in allowing 92.9 points per game, but has slipped a bit over the past eight games in surrendering 102.0 points during that span.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 7-8 ATS as an underdog this season.<\/p>\n

The Lakers have been very happy with the play of All-Star center Andrew Bynum, who was recently named the NBA Western Conference Player of the Week in averaging 27.5 points on 65.5 percent shooting.\u00a0 Los Angeles will need that type of performance in hopes of pulling off a slight upset tonight, as Bryant has scored just 29 combined points on 29.7 percent shooting in two games against Dallas this year.\u00a0 Los Angeles has won the last two meetings inside the American Airlines Center by the same score of 96-91.<\/p>\n

Dallas has won four games in a row and comes off a 112-95 victory over the Denver Nuggets as 4.5-point road underdogs.\u00a0 The Mavericks have gone \u201cover\u201d the total in six consecutive games.\u00a0 All-Star forward Dirk Nowitzki is averaging 28.5 points on 54.8 percent shooting over the past four games.\u00a0 He scored 33 points and grabbed 11 rebounds versus the Nuggets last time out.\u00a0 The team is 18-7 at home this season, including a 12-4 mark versus Western Conference foes.\u00a0 Dallas is 17-24 ATS when playing in March the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks have dropped 12 of the last 15 regular-season meetings with the Lakers,\u00a0 as they look for Nowitzki to help turn the tide.\u00a0 He has averaged team highs in scoring 23.0 points and grabbing 9.5 rebounds in playing 34.0 minutes per game in two series meetings.\u00a0 Dallas has reached the century mark in scoring in each of the last four games.\u00a0 The Mavericks are now 14-1 when scoring 100-plus points in a game this year.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Lakers due to their 4-0 ATS mark as a road underdog of 4.5 points or less, while the Mavericks are 2-5 ATS as a home favorite.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Lakers at Dallas Mavericks Wednesday, 3\/21\/12, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Dallas -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Dallas -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 188 Current Total:\u00a0 188 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Los Angeles suffered a disappointing 107-104 defeat to the Houston Rockets last night as three-point road favorites inside the Toyota Center.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[795,19,20,67,68,18,3693],"class_list":["post-22437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-andrew-bynum","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22437","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=22437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22438,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22437\/revisions\/22438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}