{"id":27528,"date":"2013-01-28T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27528"},"modified":"2013-01-28T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:30:06","slug":"nba-betting-picks-indiana-pacers-vs-denver-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-betting-picks-indiana-pacers-vs-denver-nuggets-27528\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Picks: Indiana Pacers vs. Denver Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana Pacers at Denver Nuggets
\nMonday, 1\/28\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ALT2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -5.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 194.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 195
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Denver Nuggets are 13-7 ATS at home this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Indiana has dropped back-to-back games, including a 114-110 overtime loss to the Utah Jazz as two-point road underdogs last time out, while going OVER the total for the first time in three contests.\u00a0 \u201cWe have to tighten the screws on defense,\u201d commented Pacers coach Frank Vogel.\u00a0 The Pacers have allowed opponents to score over the century mark in their last two games, which is important to handicap when looking over the pro basketball odds page, considering they allow only 89.9 points per game on the season.\u00a0 Indiana is 3-3 ATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points this season, with the UNDER going 4-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Pacers are 10-15 overall on the road, including a 4-6 mark versus Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 Indiana has allowed an average of 55.0 points in the paint over its last two games, which could be a major problem against one of the better offensive teams in that category.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the franchise hasn\u2019t won at the Pepsi Center since 2007, which will be hard to ignore when making your NBA picks against the spread Monday night.<\/p>\n

Denver has won three games in a row due to scoring at least 105 points in that span, as it comes off a dominating 121-93 victory over the Sacramento Kings as 12.5-point home favorites, while going OVER the total for the sixth time in seven contests.\u00a0 \u201cWe came out aggressive and it started with our defense,\u201d stated Nuggets forward Kenneth Faried.\u00a0 \u201cThat really ignited our offense.\u201d\u00a0 He is one of four probable starters averaging 10 or more points per game, scoring 12.0 points and grabbing 9.8 rebounds.\u00a0 Denver is 13-7 ATS at home this season, with the UNDER going 10-9-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are 17-3 overall at this venue, including a 5-2 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Denver has gone 13-3 overall in the regular season against Indiana since 2004-05, which includes a 92-89 victory as two-point road underdogs on Dec. 7, while going UNDER the posted total of 195.\u00a0 Offensively, the squad scored a season-high 71 first half points versus Sacramento, while also posting a season-high 101 through three quarters of action.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Nuggets due to their 14-3 ATS mark versus Central division opponents, while the Pacers are 1-7 ATS on the road versus teams with a winning home record.<\/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":"

Indiana Pacers at Denver Nuggets Monday, 1\/28\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ALT2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -5.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 194.5 Current Total:\u00a0 195 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Indiana has dropped back-to-back games, including a 114-110 overtime loss to the Utah Jazz as two-point road underdogs last time out, while going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[526,3622,565,18,3637,3693],"class_list":["post-27528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-eastern-conference","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-nba","tag-pepsi-center","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27528","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=27528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27532,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27528\/revisions\/27532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}