{"id":28555,"date":"2013-04-15T09:56:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28555"},"modified":"2013-04-15T09:56:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:56:26","slug":"nba-picks-denver-nuggets-vs-milwaukee-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-denver-nuggets-vs-milwaukee-bucks-28555\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Denver Nuggets vs. Milwaukee Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver Nuggets at Milwaukee Bucks
\nMonday, 4\/15\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSWI
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -6
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 211
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 210
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Denver
Denver Nuggets PG Ty Lawson returned to action Sunday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Denver earned a 118-109 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers as 15-point home favorites Sunday night, while going OVER the total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Nuggets are now in position to clinch home-court advantage for a first-round playoff series with one more win, but they may be more concerned about losing another starter, as forward Kenneth Faried suffered an ankle injury.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re dropping like flies,\u201d commented Nuggets guard Ty Lawson.\u00a0 Denver is 8-8 SU and 10-6 ATS when playing on back-to-back days, which is important to consider when making your NBA picks against the spread Monday night.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are 18-22 overall when playing away from the Pepsi Center, including a 5-8 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Denver has dropped three of its last five road games in this series, but has gone 14-5 overall versus Milwaukee since the 2003-04 campaign.\u00a0 Offensively, the team received a major lift with the return of starting point guard Ty Lawson, who scored 12 points and dished out 10 assists in his first action since March 27.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee is already locked into the No. 8 seed in the upcoming Eastern Conference playoffs, as it prepares to take on the Miami Heat in the first round, but it has dropped 11 of its last 14 games.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ll try to keep our guys fresh and keep them playing enough that they\u2019re feeling in a rhythm,\u201d stated Bucks coach Jim Boylan.\u00a0 The Bucks will likely be without the services of starting point guard Brandon Jennings, which will place more pressure on reserve guard J.J. Redick to produce.\u00a0 Milwaukee is 11-25 ATS during the second half of the season, which is hard to ignore when examining the NBA betting lines.<\/p>\n

The Bucks have already set a new franchise high with 541 blocks this season, with center Larry Sanders being one of the best defensive players in the NBA, but he\u2019ll likely miss this affair with a sore back.\u00a0 Redick was 2 of 11 from 3-point range Saturday, but he\u2019s totaled 38 points in two games versus the Nuggets this season.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 5-1 in the last six meetings in Milwaukee.<\/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":"

Denver Nuggets at Milwaukee Bucks Monday, 4\/15\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSWI Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -6 Opening Total:\u00a0 211 Current Total:\u00a0 210 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Denver earned a 118-109 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers as 15-point home favorites Sunday night, while going OVER the total for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[274,526,3273,663,18,216],"class_list":["post-28555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-brandon-jennings","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-j-j-redick","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-nba","tag-ty-lawson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28555","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=28555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28556,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28555\/revisions\/28556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}