{"id":27129,"date":"2013-01-06T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T15:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27129"},"modified":"2013-01-06T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T15:06:27","slug":"nba-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-toronto-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-toronto-raptors-27129\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Toronto Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at Toronto Raptors
\nSunday, 1\/6\/13, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TSN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 197
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 199
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma City Thunder are second in the league in averaging 105.6 points per game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma City has won four of its last five games, including a 109-85 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers Friday night, while going UNDER the total for the first time in five contests.\u00a0 The Thunder have played the fewest road games in the NBA this season, but have compiled an 8-4 record despite averaging 5.0 less per game than at Chesapeake Energy Arena.\u00a0 \u201cWe all play the same number in the end, so it evens out,\u201d stated Thunder forward Kevin Durant.\u00a0 The team is 4-2 on the first day of a back-to-back situation, as it travels to take on Washington Monday.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 7-3 ATS as a road favorite of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Thunder are second in the league in averaging 105.6 points per game, while occupying the third spot in terms of shooting 48.0 percent from the field.\u00a0 Oklahoma City has been getting tremendous production out of point guard Russell Westbrook in the last four games, as he\u2019s shooting 52.7 percent from the field in that span, while averaging 21.8 points and 8.6 assists per game on the season.\u00a0 He combines with Durant to make up the highest-scoring combo in the league.<\/p>\n

Toronto will continue a six-game homestand, as it looks to bounce back from a 105-96 setback to the Sacramento Kings as seven-point favorites, while going OVER the total for the third time in four contests.\u00a0 \u201cA loss always makes you understand what you have to work on,\u201d stated Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan.\u00a0 The Raptors will try to limit the Thunder offensively, considering they\u2019ve lost all 15 games this year when allowing at least 100 points.\u00a0 Toronto is 4-1 ATS when playing on Sunday, with the UNDER going 3-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Raptors are averaging 100.6 points over their last 10 games, with most of the production coming from the reserves, as the bench is accounting for 52.4 points per game in that span.\u00a0 The unit has scored 49-plus points in nine of those 10 affairs, as it\u2019s shooting 45 percent from the field.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 4-2 when the Raptors are home underdogs this year.<\/p>\n

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Oklahoma City Thunder at Toronto Raptors Sunday, 1\/6\/13, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TSN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 197 Current Total:\u00a0 199 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma City has won four of its last five games, including a 109-85 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers Friday night, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1339,1193,18,399,3298,693],"class_list":["post-27129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-demar-derozan","tag-kevin-durant","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27129","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=27129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27130,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27129\/revisions\/27130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}