{"id":23024,"date":"2012-05-10T08:45:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T13:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=23024"},"modified":"2012-05-10T08:45:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T13:45:30","slug":"lakers-vs-nuggets-denver-extends-the-series-to-a-game-6-at-the-pepsi-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/lakers-vs-nuggets-denver-extends-the-series-to-a-game-6-at-the-pepsi-center-23024\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers vs. Nuggets: Denver Extends the Series to a Game 6 at the Pepsi Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers at Denver Nuggets
\nThursday, 5\/10\/12, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 199.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 197.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Lakers are 31-21 all-time in Game 6 of the NBA playoffs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Los Angeles was unable to close out the Denver Nuggets in Game 5 at the Staples Center, as the team will continue to expend energy before potentially facing the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference semifinals.\u00a0 \u201cWe didn\u2019t bring the energy that was required to put this team away, and they did,\u201d stated Lakers power forward Pau Gasol about the 102-99 loss as six-point home favorites on Tuesday night.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 5-4 ATS as a road underdog of three points or less, with the \u201cover\u201d going 5-4 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Lakers received a huge offensive effort from guard Kobe Bryant in the losing effort, scoring 43 points, which is much higher than his 25.0-point average in 56 career regular season games in this series.\u00a0 With the three-point loss to the Denver Nuggets in Game 5, Los Angeles failed to close out an opponent on the first attempt fro just the fourth time since 2001.\u00a0 The franchise will be playing a Game 6 for the 53rd time in franchise history, posting a 31-21 record in that situation.<\/p>\n

Denver has split its two games inside the Pepsi Center in this series, with both games falling short of the posted total.\u00a0 The \u201cunder\u201d is 3-2 in the first five games of this best-of-seven first-round series.\u00a0 \u201cPlayoff basketball is extremely intense,\u201d commented Nuggets center JaVale McGee.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s exciting and just a great experience.\u201d\u00a0 He finished Game 5 with 21 points and 14 rebounds, while guard Andre Miller led the team with 24 points and eight assists.\u00a0 Denver is 2-3 ATS as a home favorite of three points or less, while the \u201cunder\u201d is 3-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets will need to bring the same type of defensive intensity that it displayed last time out, pushing its all-time playoff record to 8-4 when holding opponents to under 40 percent shooting.\u00a0 Denver has scored 100 or more points twice in this series, which is surprising due to leading the NBA in scoring 104.1 points per game during the regular season.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Nuggets due to their 4-1 ATS mark as a favorite, while the Lakers are 1-5 in their last six playoff games as an underdog of 4.5 or fewer points.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Lakers at Denver Nuggets Thursday, 5\/10\/12, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 199.5 Current Total:\u00a0 197.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Los Angeles was unable to close out the Denver Nuggets in Game 5 at the Staples Center, as the team will continue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3615,526,67,68,909,3637,3693],"class_list":["post-23024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-andre-miller","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-pau-gasol","tag-pepsi-center","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024","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=23024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23025,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024\/revisions\/23025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}