{"id":27396,"date":"2013-01-20T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27396"},"modified":"2013-01-20T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T16:42:00","slug":"nba-betting-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-denver-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-betting-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-denver-nuggets-27396\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Picks: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Denver Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at Denver Nuggets
\nSunday, 1\/20\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ALT2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 210.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 209
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oklahoma City Thunder F Kevin Durant scored a career-high 52 points last time out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma City has won six games in a row, as it comes off an exciting 117-114 overtime victory over the Dallas Mavericks as 5.5-point road favorites Friday night, while going OVER the total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Thunder were led offensively by the play of forward Kevin Durant, who scored a career-high 52 points on 13 of 31 from the field.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s more about the win for me,\u201d stated Durant following the affair.\u00a0 The team is 13-5 away from Chesapeake Energy Arena this year, including a 7-2 mark versus Western Conference foes.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 13-4 ATS when playing against a team with a winning record, something to consider when looking over the pro basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Thunder will be playing the second game of a season-long six game road swing, as they became the first team in the NBA to capture 30 wins.\u00a0 Oklahoma City has put together a remarkable 20-3 record versus conference foes this year, while it has gone 4-1-1 ATS in its six games against division rivals.\u00a0 Offensively, the squad paces the league in averaging 105.7 points per game, while shooting 47.7 percent from the floor.<\/p>\n

Denver has dropped back-to-back games since winning six in a row, coming off a disappointing 112-108 setback to the Washington Wizards as 10.5-point home favorites, while going OVER the total for the sixth time in seven contests.\u00a0 The Nuggets are among the league leaders in rebounds, but were beaten on the glass by 11 boards last time out.\u00a0 The franchise is 15-3 at home this season, including a 10-1 mark versus conference foes.\u00a0 Denver is 3-2 ATS as a home underdog of three points or less since 2010, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NBA picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets have claimed 15 of their last 24 games overall in this series, as they\u2019ll try to gain revenge from a 117-97 blowout loss as nine-point road underdogs in the last meeting four days ago.\u00a0 Denver was held to 36.8 percent shooting in that affair, as it was never in the contest, trailing by 20 points going into halftime.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the UNDER is 4-0-1 in the last five meetings in the Mile High City.<\/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":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at Denver Nuggets Sunday, 1\/20\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ALT2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 210.5 Current Total:\u00a0 209 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma City has won six games in a row, as it comes off an exciting 117-114 overtime victory over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[526,1193,18,399,3693],"class_list":["post-27396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-kevin-durant","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27396","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=27396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27397,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27396\/revisions\/27397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}