{"id":28025,"date":"2013-03-07T09:49:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28025"},"modified":"2013-03-07T09:49:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:49:14","slug":"nba-expert-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-new-york-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-expert-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-new-york-knicks-28025\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Expert Picks: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. New York Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at New York Knicks
\nThursday, 3\/7\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT
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\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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New York Knicks F Carmelo Anthony is questionable to play with a knee injury Thursday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma City has won five of its last six games, including a 122-105 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers as 9.5-point home favorites, while going OVER the total in two consecutive contests.\u00a0 The Thunder\u2019s recent success has come on the defensive end, as they\u2019ve allowed 95.2 points over their last six games.\u00a0 \u201cI think the defense was key,\u201d commented Thunder coach Scott Brooks after their most recent victory.\u00a0 Taking care of the basketball will be key in this affair, as it commits 15.5 turnovers per game, including 6.7 by Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 14-9 ATS versus Atlantic division opponents the last two-plus seasons, which is important to consider when making your college basketball picks against the spread Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Thunder are 17-12 overall on the road during the 2012-13 NBA season, which includes a 6-4 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 12-2 when committing 12 or fewer turnovers this season, as it gets set to open up a back-to-back situation.\u00a0 The squad is 7-2 on the first night and 6-3 on the second night of its back-to-back pairings.<\/p>\n

New York has also captured five of its last six games, including an 87-77 victory over the Detroit Pistons as 5.5-point road favorites Wednesday night, while going UNDER the total in four consecutive contests.\u00a0 The Knicks improved to 4-4 on the year when playing without the services of star forward Carmelo Anthony, who sat out with a knee injury.\u00a0 The franchise is 21-9 at Madison Square Garden this season, including a 9-3 mark versus Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 New York is 30-21 ATS when playing on back-to-back days the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball betting lines.<\/p>\n

The Knicks obviously need Anthony on the offensive end, as he\u2019s the league\u2019s second-leading scorer in averaging 28.2 points per game, which is just four tenths behind Durant\u2019s mark (28.6).\u00a0 New York forward Amare Stoudemire is starting to become a major contributor in the paint\u2014shooting 72.9 percent and averaging 17.3 points over his last six games.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Knicks due to their 7-0 ATS mark on Thursdays, while the Thunder are 2-5 ATS on the road.<\/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 New York Knicks Thursday, 3\/7\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 N\/A Current Betting Line:\u00a0 N\/A Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma City has won five of its last six games, including a 122-105 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers as 9.5-point home favorites, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[49,1193,3902,18,115,399],"class_list":["post-28025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-kevin-durant","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28025","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=28025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28026,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28025\/revisions\/28026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}