{"id":27073,"date":"2013-01-03T10:48:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27073"},"modified":"2013-01-03T10:48:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T15:48:46","slug":"nba-picks-san-antonio-spurs-vs-new-york-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-san-antonio-spurs-vs-new-york-knicks-27073\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: San Antonio Spurs vs. New York Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs at New York Knicks
\nThursday, 1\/3\/13, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 MSG
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New York PK
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 205
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 202.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The San Antonio Spurs are 41-18-4 ATS versus Eastern Conference opponents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

San Antonio has won seven games in a row, including a 117-110 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks as 5.5-point road favorites last night, while going OVER the total for the first time in three contests.\u00a0 The Spurs are shooting 53.4 percent from the field and averaging 111.7 points during their current run, as forward Tim Duncan and point guard Tony Parker combined to score 51 points Wednesday night.\u00a0 San Antonio is 5-2 ATS when playing on back-to-back days this year, which is important to consider when making your NBA picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 12-6 overall on the road this season, including a 6-1 mark versus Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 San Antonio hasn\u2019t dropped back-to-back games in this series since the 2002-03 campaign, as it looks to gain revenge from a 104-100 loss as 5.5-point home favorites on Nov. 15.\u00a0 Parker paced the team offensively in scoring 19 points and dishing out 12 assists.<\/p>\n

New York has fallen off a bit since starting out the season as one of the hottest teams in the NBA, as it looks to snap a two-game losing streak, which includes a 105-100 defeat to the Portland Trail Blazers as 9.5-point home favorites Tuesday night.\u00a0 \u201cDefensively, we are not where we were earlier in the season,\u201d stated Knicks head coach Mike Woodson.\u00a0 The team will be trying to avoid its first three-game losing streak of the 2012-13 campaign, but has gone 6-7 ATS versus winning teams.<\/p>\n

The Knicks are led offensively by forward Carmelo Anthony, who is averaging 29.2 points per game, as they look to improve upon their 12-3 record at Madison Square Garden.\u00a0 New York was paced by Raymond Felton\u2019s 25 points and seven assists in the first meeting in the Lone Star State, but he\u2019s out for this game with a fractured finger on his right hand.\u00a0 J.R. Smith has become a quality scoring option off the bench, averaging a career-high 16.5 points and 5.2 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Spurs due to their 41-18-4 ATS mark versus Eastern Conference teams, while the Knicks are 0-5-1 ATS versus Western Conference foes.<\/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":"

San Antonio Spurs at New York Knicks Thursday, 1\/3\/13, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 MSG Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New York PK Opening Total:\u00a0 205 Current Total:\u00a0 202.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker San Antonio has won seven games in a row, including a 117-110 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks as 5.5-point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[49,3622,3902,115,141,3350,1029,3693],"class_list":["post-27073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-eastern-conference","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-tim-duncan","tag-tony-parker","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27073","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=27073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27074,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27073\/revisions\/27074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}