{"id":28528,"date":"2013-04-10T23:45:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T04:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28528"},"modified":"2013-04-10T23:45:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T04:45:45","slug":"pro-basketball-predictions-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-golden-state-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-basketball-predictions-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-golden-state-warriors-28528\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Basketball Predictions: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Golden State Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at Golden State Warriors
\nThursday, 4\/11\/13, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 203
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 204.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oklahoma City has won four of its last five games, including a 90-80 victory over the Utah Jazz as three-point road favorites Tuesday night, while going UNDER the total for the eighth time in 10 contests.\u00a0 \u201cThe stats say we are the second-best defensive team in the league,\u201d commented Thunder coach Scott Brooks.\u00a0 The Thunder are 24-15 overall on the road, including a 13-11 mark versus Western Conference opponents, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NBA picks against the spread.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 8-3 ATS as road favorites of 3.5 to 6 points, with the OVER going 6-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Thunder lead the NBA in outscoring opponents by an average of 9.2 points per game,while they currently rank third in the league in averaging 105.8 points per game.\u00a0 Oklahoma State finished behind Denver and San Antonio in that particular category a season ago.\u00a0 The team will be playing its 15th and final back-to-back of the season, as it has gone 10-4 on the first night and 9-5 on the second.<\/p>\n

Golden State has also won four of its last five games, including an impressive 105-89 blowout victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves as seven-point home favorites Tuesday, while going UNDER the total for the third time in four contests.\u00a0 The Warriors secured their spot in the 2013 NBA playoffs already, while they lead the Houston Rockets by a game in the race for the No. 6 seed.\u00a0 Point guard Stephen Curry is the player to watch offensively, as he averages 22.5 points and 6.9 assists per game.\u00a0 Golden State is 9-9 ATS as home underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 11-7 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Warriors are 27-12 overall at Oracle Arena, including a 16-8 mark versus conference rivals.\u00a0 Golden State has lost its last three season series against Oklahoma, but can secure its first series split since 2008-09 with a victory in this spot.\u00a0 The team is 35-10 when outrebounding the opposition this season, while it has won 36 of its last 39 when leading entering the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Thunder due to their 5-0 ATS mark on the road versus a team with a winning home record.<\/p>\n

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Oklahoma City Thunder at Golden State Warriors Thursday, 4\/11\/13, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 203 Current Total:\u00a0 204.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma City has won four of its last five games, including a 90-80 victory over the Utah Jazz as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1011,18,399,4492,14,3693],"class_list":["post-28528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-oracle-arena","tag-stephen-curry","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528","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=28528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28530,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528\/revisions\/28530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}