{"id":25798,"date":"2012-11-02T09:08:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T14:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=25798"},"modified":"2012-11-02T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T14:08:24","slug":"los-angeles-clippers-vs-los-angeles-lakers-nba-betting-odds-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/los-angeles-clippers-vs-los-angeles-lakers-nba-betting-odds-and-predictions-25798\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers vs. Los Angeles Lakers: NBA Betting Odds and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Clippers at Los Angeles Lakers
\nFriday, 11\/2\/12, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles Lakers -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles Lakers -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 192
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 192
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Clippers have gone 9-4 ATS in their last 13 meetings with the Los Angeles Lakers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Los Angeles Clippers opened up their 2012-2013 NBA season with an impressive 101-92 win over the Memphis Grizzlies as four-point home favorites on Wednesday night, while going OVER the posted total of 187.5.\u00a0 The Clippers got a huge performance out of reserve guard Jamal Crawford, who scored 29 points off the bench.\u00a0 \u201cI may be a little biased, but I think we\u2019re the best bench in the NBA,\u201d commented Crawford after the game.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 8-7 ATS in November the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 10-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Clippers have lost nine consecutive games against the Lakers when meeting up inside the Staples Center as the road team, including five losses since the start of the 2009 campaign.\u00a0 The team has been outscored by a significant 108.2 to 93.6 margin in those five contests.\u00a0 Defensively, the team held Memphis to just 38.4 percent shooting in the season opener, while winning the fourth quarter by a 28-15 margin.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Lakers will be looking to avoid their worst start in 34 years and will likely have to play without the services of new point guard Steve Nash, who is listed as doubtful with a shin injury.\u00a0 The Lakers are being led offensively by guard Kobe Bryant and center Dwight Howard, as both All-Stars are averaging 26.0 points per game.\u00a0 In 60 career games (52 starts) in this series, Bryant has averaged 25.6 points.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 7-8 ATS in November the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 9-6 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Lakers have started out 0-3 only three times in franchise history, as they will need to improve on the defensive end to avoid such a mark.\u00a0 Los Angeles allowed Portland to shoot 50.6 percent from the field in a 116-106 setback as 2.5-point road favorites on Wednesday, while going OVER the total for the second time in as many tries this season.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the franchise won two of three regular-season meetings a year ago.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Clippers due to their 9-4 ATS mark in the last 13 meetings, while the Lakers are 0-4-1 ATS in their last five games versus Western Conference opponents.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Clippers at Los Angeles Lakers Friday, 11\/2\/12, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles Lakers -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles Lakers -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 192 Current Total:\u00a0 192 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker The Los Angeles Clippers opened up their 2012-2013 NBA season with an impressive 101-92 win over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[833,4357,67,1371,68,3624,576],"class_list":["post-25798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-dwight-howard","tag-jamal-crawford","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-staples-center","tag-steve-nash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25798","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=25798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25799,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25798\/revisions\/25799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}