{"id":26455,"date":"2012-11-30T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26455"},"modified":"2012-11-30T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T15:21:43","slug":"nba-betting-picks-utah-jazz-vs-oklahoma-city-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-betting-picks-utah-jazz-vs-oklahoma-city-thunder-26455\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Picks: Utah Jazz vs. Oklahoma City Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utah Jazz at Oklahoma City Thunder
\nFriday, 11\/30\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSOK
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -8.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -9
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 205
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 204.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oklahoma City is scoring at a high rate during its current three-game winning streak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Utah has won five of its last six games, as it comes off a 96-84 win over the New Orleans Hornets as three-point road favorites, while going UNDER the total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 The Jazz are 3-7 on the road this season, but just 1-5 in that situation against Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 The franchise has lost eight of the last 11 matchups in this particular series dating back to 2009.\u00a0 Utah is 8-5 ATS as a road underdog of 6.5 to 9 points over the last two-plus seasons, which is important to consider when looking over the pro basketball odds on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Jazz have four probable starters averaging in double figures, with center Al Jefferson leading the way in scoring 16.6 points and grabbing 10.6 rebounds per game.\u00a0 He scored a team-high 19 points against the Hornets last time out, while small forward Marvin Williams chipped in with 16 points in that affair.\u00a0 Utah has been getting to the free throw line this season, ranking second in makes and third in attempts from the charity stripe.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City has scored 114 or more points during its three-game win streak, as it picked up a 120-98 blowout victory over the Houston Rockets as 10.5-point home favorites last time out.\u00a0 The Thunder were led by Kevin Durant\u2019s season-high 37 points, which allowed the franchise to move past the offseason trade that sent last year\u2019s Sixth Man of the Year James Harden to the Lone Star State.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve moved past it,\u201d stated Durant after the game.\u00a0 He is once against joining up with point guard Russell Westbrook to form the NBA\u2019s highest-scoring duo. Oklahoma City is 2-0 ATS at home when the total is between 200 and 204.5 this season.<\/p>\n

The Thunder have won eight of their 10 games at Chesapeake Energy Arena, including a 4-1 mark versus Western foes.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 7-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the floor this year, which is certainly possible to achieve versus a subpar road team in this matchup.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the UNDER is 4-0 in the last four meetings in this series.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Utah Jazz at Oklahoma City Thunder Friday, 11\/30\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSOK Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -8.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -9 Opening Total:\u00a0 205 Current Total:\u00a0 204.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Utah has won five of its last six games, as it comes off a 96-84 win over the New Orleans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[676,6622,1193,18,399,838,3693],"class_list":["post-26455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-al-jefferson","tag-chesapeake-energy-arena","tag-kevin-durant","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-utah-jazz","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26455","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=26455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26456,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26455\/revisions\/26456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}