{"id":28476,"date":"2013-04-04T15:45:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T20:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28476"},"modified":"2013-04-04T15:45:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T20:45:51","slug":"nba-expert-picks-san-antonio-spurs-vs-oklahoma-city-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-expert-picks-san-antonio-spurs-vs-oklahoma-city-thunder-28476\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Expert Picks: San Antonio Spurs vs. Oklahoma City Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs at Oklahoma City Thunder
\nThursday, 4\/4\/13, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 204
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 199.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The San Antonio Spurs haven’t had much success on the road recently against the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

San Antonio snapped a two-game losing streak by picking up a 98-84 win over the Orlando Magic as 12.5-point home favorites Wednesday night, while going UNDER the total for the fifth time in six contests.\u00a0 The Spurs sat numerous regulars in that affair, which is important to consider when looking over the pro basketball odds page, but they expect to have Tony Parker back on the floor.\u00a0 The franchise has dropped three consecutive games when playing the second game of a back-to-back situation.\u00a0 San Antonio is 20-10-2 ATS in April the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 21-11 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 23-14 overall on the road this season, including an even 11-11 mark versus Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 San Antonio has won two of three meetings with Oklahoma City during the 2012-13 campaign, but suffered a 107-93 defeat as 5.5-point road underdogs on Dec. 17, while the UNDER has cashed in all three of those affairs.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is fourth in the league in averaging 103.7 points per game, while ranking second in shooting 48.6 percent from the floor.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City has won four of its last five games, including a 109-99 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks as six-point road favorites last Saturday, while going OVER the total for the first time in six contests.\u00a0 The Thunder have outscored the Spurs by an average of 12.0 points in winning four consecutive games in the series at Chesapeake Energy Arena, which is important to consider when making your NBA expert picks.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 5-2 ATS as home favorites of 6.5 to 9 points this season, with the UNDER going 4-2-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Thunder are a dominating 32-5 at home this season, including a 22-2 mark versus conference rivals.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is first in the NBA in averaging 106.0 points per game, which has been helped along by shooting 48.1 percent from the field.\u00a0 The franchise also leads the league in outscoring foes by an average of 9.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Thunder due to the home team being 3-0-1 ATS in the last four meetings in this series, while the OVER is 7-2-1 in the last 10 games in Oklahoma City between these two rivals.<\/p>\n

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San Antonio Spurs at Oklahoma City Thunder Thursday, 4\/4\/13, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 204 Current Total:\u00a0 199.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker San Antonio snapped a two-game losing streak by picking up a 98-84 win over the Orlando Magic as 12.5-point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[6622,18,399,141,1029,3693],"class_list":["post-28476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chesapeake-energy-arena","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-tony-parker","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28476","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=28476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28478,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28476\/revisions\/28478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}