{"id":28531,"date":"2013-04-12T09:35:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T14:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28531"},"modified":"2013-04-12T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T14:35:33","slug":"nba-picks-denver-nuggets-vs-dallas-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-denver-nuggets-vs-dallas-mavericks-28531\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Denver Nuggets vs. Dallas Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver Nuggets at Dallas Mavericks
\nFriday, 4\/12\/13, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSSW
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 207
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 206.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mavericks-Blazers
The Dallas Mavericks will not be participating in the 2013 NBA playoffs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Denver has won five games in a row, including a 96-86 victory over the San Antonio Spurs as 3.5-point home favorites Wednesday night, while going UNDER the posted total of 203.\u00a0 The Nuggets are clinging to the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference, as they sit a game ahead of the Memphis Grizzlies and two ahead of the Los Angeles Clippers.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s the main goal,\u201d commented Nuggets forward Wilson Chandler.\u00a0 He has entered the starting lineup after the season-ending injury to second-leading scorer Danilo Gallinari.\u00a0 Denver is 9-10 ATS as road favorites of three point or less the last two-plus seasons, which is important to consider when making your NBA picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are 18-21 overall when playing away from the Pepsi Center, including an even 13-13 mark versus conference foes.\u00a0 Denver has gone 7-3 on the road against Dallas the last five regular seasons, but it\u2019s still 8-21 on the road in this series dating back to the 1997-98 campaign.\u00a0 The team has shown the ability to move past injuries due to its deep roster, as the bench ranks second in the league in averaging 41.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Dallas had its two-game winning streak snapped in a 102-91 setback to the Phoenix Suns as 13.5-point home favorites Wednesday night, while going UNDER the total for the fourth time in five contests.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re going to try to win the next game to get this to .500,\u201d commented Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki.\u00a0 The Mavericks will miss the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2000, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro basketball odds page Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are 22-16 overall at the American Airlines Center, including a 12-11 mark versus conference rivals.\u00a0 Dallas leads the league in receiving 41.4 points per game from its bench, but it has dropped 14 of the last 21 regular-season meetings in this rivalry.\u00a0 The team is 22-9 this season when holding opponents to under the century mark offensively, but that will be a tough task against a team that averages 105.8 points per game on the season.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Nuggets due to the road team being 9-1 ATS in the last 10 meetings in this series.<\/p>\n

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Denver Nuggets at Dallas Mavericks Friday, 4\/12\/13, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSSW Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 207 Current Total:\u00a0 206.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Denver has won five games in a row, including a 96-86 victory over the San Antonio Spurs as 3.5-point home favorites Wednesday night, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3920,19,526,20,18,3693],"class_list":["post-28531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-american-airlines-center","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-nba","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531","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=28531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28532,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531\/revisions\/28532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}