{"id":26550,"date":"2012-12-07T08:15:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T13:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26550"},"modified":"2012-12-07T08:15:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T13:15:50","slug":"los-angeles-lakers-vs-oklahoma-city-thunder-nba-betting-odds-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/los-angeles-lakers-vs-oklahoma-city-thunder-nba-betting-odds-and-predictions-26550\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers vs. Oklahoma City Thunder: NBA Betting Odds and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers at Oklahoma City Thunder
\nFriday, 12\/7\/12, 9:30 PM EST, TV: ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -8.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 210
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 210
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Lakers SG Kobe Bryant will be out for revenge on Friday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Los Angeles will look to win back-to-back games for the first time since mid-November, as it comes off a dominating 103-87 victory over the New Orleans Hornets as 4.5-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Lakers were led by guard Kobe Bryant\u2019s 29 points, as he eclipsed the 30,000-point plateau for his career.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s pretty awesome,\u201d stated Bryant after the game.\u00a0 He is averaging 28.0 points on 49 percent shooting this year, while center Dwight Howard sits behind him at 18.5 points and 11.2 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 1-5 ATS as a road underdog of 6.5 to 9 points since 2010.<\/p>\n

The Lakers dropped last season\u2019s series with the Thunder, losing two of three regular-season games, while also falling short against them in the NBA playoffs.\u00a0 Los Angeles has won nine of 13 meetings during the regular season since the Thunder relocated to Oklahoma City prior to the 2008-09 campaign.\u00a0 Bryant averaged 31.2 points in last year\u2019s Western Conference semifinal series in which the franchise fell short in five games.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City has broken the century mark in scoring in every game during its six-game winning streak, including a 117-111 victory over the Brooklyn Nets as four-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Thunder were led by forward Kevin Durant\u2019s 32 points in that contest, bumping up his season average to 26.5.\u00a0 The franchise has won nine of 11 games at Chesapeake Energy Arena this year, including a 5-1 mark versus conference foes.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 2-0 ATS when playing with two days reset this year, with the OVER cashing in each of those contests.<\/p>\n

The Thunder should have no trouble scoring 100 or more points in this affair, considering that point guard Russell Westbrook should have his way against the Lakers.\u00a0 He averaged 25.6 points against them in last year\u2019s playoffs.\u00a0 Oklahoma City has outscored its opponents by an average of 18.9 points per game during its current win streak.\u00a0 Durant and Westbrook are a big reason why the team leads the NBA in averaging 105.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this contest, as the OVER is 5-1 in the last six meetings.<\/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":"

Los Angeles Lakers at Oklahoma City Thunder Friday, 12\/7\/12, 9:30 PM EST, TV: ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -8.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 210 Current Total:\u00a0 210 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Los Angeles will look to win back-to-back games for the first time since mid-November, as it comes off a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[6622,1193,67,68,399,3298],"class_list":["post-26550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chesapeake-energy-arena","tag-kevin-durant","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-russell-westbrook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550","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=26550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26552,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550\/revisions\/26552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}