{"id":27518,"date":"2013-01-27T12:33:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T17:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27518"},"modified":"2013-01-27T12:33:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T17:33:40","slug":"nba-betting-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-los-angeles-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-betting-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-los-angeles-lakers-27518\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Picks: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Los Angeles Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at Los Angeles Lakers
\nSunday, 1\/27\/13, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 210
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 206.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Lakers are 0-11 SU as an underdog this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma City will close out a six-game road trip Sunday, as it comes off a 105-95 victory over the Sacramento Kings as 9.5-point favorites, while going UNDER the total in two consecutive contests.\u00a0 The Thunder have won nine of their last 11 games in this series, which included a five-game victory in last year\u2019s Western Conference semifinals.\u00a0 \u00a0 The franchise is 15-7 away from Chesapeake Energy Arena this season, including a 9-4 mark versus conference rivals.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 5-1 ATS as road favorites of 3.5 to 6 points this season, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NBA picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Thunder lead the league in scoring 105.9 points per game, while also sitting above all teams with an 8.8 point differential.\u00a0 On the other end of the floor, Oklahoma City is allowing opponents to score 97.1 points on 43 percent shooting.\u00a0 Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook have played amazing offensive basketball in the first five games of this road trip\u2014combining to score 68.7 points per game.\u00a0 The squad is 21-5 this season when each score 20-plus points this year.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles snapped a four-game losing streak last time out, as it came away with an impressive 102-84 victory over the Utah Jazz as five-point home favorites, while going UNDER the posted total of 204.5.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s not about showing we\u2019ve turned the corner,\u201d commented Lakers guard Kobe Bryant.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s about doing it.\u201d\u00a0 The Lakers are a miserable 3-10 overall in the month of January, while they\u2019ve gone 2-9 ATS as underdogs this year.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 4-5 ATS when revenging a home loss versus an opponent during the 2012-13 regular season, which is something to consider when looking over the pro basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are 13-10 overall at the Staples Center this year, including a 7-6 mark versus conference rivals.\u00a0 Los Angeles ranks sixth in the NBA in averaging 102.3 points per game, but sit 26th in terms of defense, allowing 101.1 points per game.\u00a0 Shooting guard Kobe Bryant is the key player to watch offensively, as he ranks third in the NBA in averaging 28.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Lakers due to their 9-4 ATS mark when playing on Sundays.<\/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 Los Angeles Lakers Sunday, 1\/27\/13, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 210 Current Total:\u00a0 206.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma City will close out a six-game road trip Sunday, as it comes off a 105-95 victory over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1193,67,68,18,399,3298,3624,3693],"class_list":["post-27518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-kevin-durant","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-staples-center","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27518","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=27518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27519,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27518\/revisions\/27519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}