{"id":28037,"date":"2013-03-07T22:30:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T03:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28037"},"modified":"2013-03-07T22:30:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T03:30:52","slug":"nba-picks-utah-jazz-vs-chicago-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-utah-jazz-vs-chicago-bulls-28037\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Utah Jazz vs. Chicago Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utah Jazz at Chicago Bulls
\nFriday, 3\/8\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSCH
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\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"carlos-boozer-bulls\"Utah has dropped five of its last six games, including a 104-101 setback to the Cleveland Cavaliers as 1.5-point road underdogs Wednesday night, while going OVER the total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 \u201cThese are tough losses,\u201d commented Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to find a way to get better.\u201d\u00a0 The Jazz have played their last three games without the services of center Al Jefferson, who is dealing with a sprained right ankle.\u00a0 Utah is 17-18 ATS in March the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NBA picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Jazz are 10-21 overall when playing away from EnergySolutions Arena, including a 6-7 mark versus Eastern Conference foes.\u00a0 Utah has lost six of its last eight road games versus the Bulls, including the last two by an average of 16.0 points.\u00a0 Jefferson is an important player on the offensive end for this team, as he ranks first in the league in field-goal attempts and field-goal makes, while sitting sixth in terms of defensive rebounds.<\/p>\n

Chicago has lost back-to-back games, including a 101-83 setback to the San Antonio Spurs as 8.5-point road underdogs Wednesday night, while going UNDER the posted total of 190.5.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to get guys healthy,\u201d commented Bulls center Joakim Noah.\u00a0 The Bulls have a laundry list of injuries, but are still third in the league in surrendering just 91.4 points per game.\u00a0 Chicago is 10-0 ATS when playing on Friday this season, which is important to consider when looking over the NBA betting lines.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 17-14 at the United Center this season, including a 5-7 mark versus Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 Chicago will likely rely heavily on the play of forward Carlos Boozer on the offensive end in this affair, as he averaged 27.0 points and 8.0 rebounds in 41 minutes of action versus the Jazz during the 2011-12 campaign.\u00a0 Small forward Luol Deng will need to up his production, as he\u2019s averaging just 13.5 points on 38.9 percent shooting over the last four contests.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bulls due to their 4-0 ATS mark in the last four meetings in this series.<\/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":"

Utah Jazz at Chicago Bulls Friday, 3\/8\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CSCH 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 Utah has dropped five of its last six games, including a 104-101 setback to the Cleveland Cavaliers as 1.5-point road underdogs Wednesday night, while going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[676,2067,174,18,3674,838],"class_list":["post-28037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-al-jefferson","tag-carlos-boozer","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-nba","tag-united-center","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28037","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=28037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28039,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28037\/revisions\/28039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}