{"id":22499,"date":"2012-03-26T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=22499"},"modified":"2012-03-26T10:45:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T15:45:35","slug":"nuggets-vs-bulls-nba-betting-odds-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nuggets-vs-bulls-nba-betting-odds-and-predictions-22499\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets vs. Bulls: NBA Betting Odds and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver Nuggets at Chicago Bulls
\nMonday, 3\/26\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBATV
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 199
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 199
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chicago Bulls F Luol Deng will have to be the leader offensively against the Denver Nuggets on Monday night inside the United Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Denver has opened up its current seven-game road trip with two double-digit losses, including a 117-100 defeat against the Minnesota Timberwolves as 1.5-point road underdogs on Sunday.\u00a0 The Nuggets have played very little defense over the past four games, allowing at least 112 points in each contest during that span.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the franchise is surrendering 104.6 points per game on the road this season, which is the NBA\u2019s worst mark.\u00a0 Denver is 15-7 ATS on the road this season.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets have registered an even 11-11 mark on the road this season, but come into this contest with a perfect 5-0 mark in such contests against Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Denver is 5-6 against Chicago when playing inside the United Center since the 2000-01 season.\u00a0 Offensively, the team leads the league in scoring 103.7 points per game, but will be challenged in a major way in taking on the NBA\u2019s second-best defense on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Chicago has won four straight and comes off a hard-fought 102-101 overtime victory over the Toronto Raptors as 12.5-point home favorites on Saturday.\u00a0 The Bulls will be missing All-Star point guard Derrick Rose for the seventh straight game, as he continues to nurse a groin injury.\u00a0 The team is 20-4 at home this season, including a 5-1 mark versus Western Conference foes.\u00a0 Despite losing three of the last four games in this series overall, the franchise has proven victorious in four of the last five meetings in the Windy City.\u00a0 Chicago is 30-20 ATS and the \u201cover\u201d is 27-23 on the season.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are definitely a weary group being shorthanded at this point of the 2011-12 campaign, as they\u2019ve played the most games in the league to this point.\u00a0 Chicago will likely lean heavily on forward Luol Deng on the offensive end, as he averaged 20.5 points and 9.0 rebounds in two games agains the Nuggets last year.\u00a0 Coming into their last contest against the Raptors, the Bulls were leading all teams in outscoring opponents by 9.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Nuggets due to their 10-2 ATS mark versus Central opponents, while the favorite is 1-3-1 ATS in the last five meetings of this series.<\/p>\n

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Denver Nuggets at Chicago Bulls Monday, 3\/26\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBATV Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 199 Current Total:\u00a0 199 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Denver has opened up its current seven-game road trip with two double-digit losses, including a 117-100 defeat against the Minnesota Timberwolves as 1.5-point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[174,526,521,3622,18,3674,3693],"class_list":["post-22499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-derrick-rose","tag-eastern-conference","tag-nba","tag-united-center","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22499","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=22499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22500,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22499\/revisions\/22500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}