{"id":28492,"date":"2013-04-06T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28492"},"modified":"2013-04-06T16:30:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T21:30:27","slug":"nba-betting-odds-and-predictions-houston-rockets-vs-denver-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-betting-odds-and-predictions-houston-rockets-vs-denver-nuggets-28492\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Odds and Predictions: Houston Rockets vs. Denver Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Rockets at Denver Nuggets
\nSaturday, 4\/6\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ALT2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -6
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 215
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 212
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Denver Nuggets have lost F Danilo Gallinari for the season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Houston has won four games in a row, including an impressive 116-98 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers as 5.5-point road favorites Friday night, while going OVER the posted total of 210.\u00a0 \u201cWe did a pretty good job of staying aggressive and taking the ball to the basket,\u201d commented Rockets guard James Harden.\u00a0 He leads the team in averaging 26.0 points per game, which is important to consider when looking over the pro basketball odds page.\u00a0 Houston is 9-8 ATS as road underdogs of six points or less this season, with the OVER going 10-8 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Rockets are 16-22 overall when playing away from the Toyota Center, including a 7-16 mark when taking on Western Conference rivals.\u00a0 Houston is a season-best 10 games over .500 during the 2012-13 NBA season, while it leads the entire league in averaging 106.1 points per game.\u00a0 The offense thrives on getting out in transition, averaging 18.4 fast-break points, which trails only one team in that particular category.<\/p>\n

Denver has won three consecutive games, including a 95-94 victory over the Dallas Mavericks as seven-point home favorites Thursday night, while going UNDER the total for the sixth time in seven contests.\u00a0 The Nuggets suffered a major loss on their roster in that affair, as forward Danilo Gallinari is out for the season with a torn left ACL.\u00a0 He was second on the team in averaging 16.2 points per game and knocked down a team-high 135 3-pointers.\u00a0 Denver is 15-16 ATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 22-10 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are a dominating 34-3 overall at the Pepsi Center, including a remarkable 21-1 versus conference foes.\u00a0 Denver is 10-8 in its last 18 home games against Houston, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NBA expert picks Saturday night.\u00a0 The franchise is 46-8 at home since the start of the 2009-10 season when facing an opponent that\u2019s closing out a back-to-back situation.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Rockets due to the underdog being 9-3-1 ATS in the last 13 meetings in this series, while the Nuggets are 1-4 ATS following a SU win.<\/p>\n

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Houston Rockets at Denver Nuggets Saturday, 4\/6\/13, 9:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ALT2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -6 Opening Total:\u00a0 215 Current Total:\u00a0 212 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Houston has won four games in a row, including an impressive 116-98 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers as 5.5-point road favorites Friday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[212,526,831,3595,18,3637,3693],"class_list":["post-28492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-danilo-gallinari","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-houston-rockets","tag-james-harden","tag-nba","tag-pepsi-center","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492","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=28492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28494,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492\/revisions\/28494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}