{"id":28593,"date":"2013-04-20T15:57:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T20:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28593"},"modified":"2013-04-20T15:57:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T20:57:45","slug":"nba-expert-picks-memphis-grizzlies-vs-los-angeles-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-expert-picks-memphis-grizzlies-vs-los-angeles-clippers-28593\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Expert Picks: Memphis Grizzlies vs. Los Angeles Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memphis Grizzlies at Los Angeles Clippers
\nSaturday, 4\/20\/13, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -5
\nCurrent Betting Line: Los Angeles -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 179
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 179
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Clippers are 4-2 ATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 6 points this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Memphis won five of its last six regular season games, including a 86-70 victory over the Utah Jazz as 4.5-point home favorites Wednesday, while going UNDER the posted total of 178.5.\u00a0 The Grizzlies finished with the same record as the Clippers, but lost the tie breaker in terms of gaining home-court advantage in this series due to dropping three of four meetings this year.\u00a0 Memphis is 1-4 SU and 2-3 ATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points this season, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NBA expert picks Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies were 24-17 overall when playing away from FedExForum, including a 14-12 mark versus Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 Memphis went 23-8 after the All-Star break, which ended up being the third-best record in the league in that span.\u00a0 Defensively, the team led the league in allowing just 89.5 points per game, which was made possible by holding opponents under the century mark in 71 of 82 games during the 2012-13 campaign.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles ended the season on a seven-game winning streak, including a 112-108 triumph over the Sacramento Kings Wednesday, while going OVER the total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 The Clippers outscored the Grizzlies by a 101.1-to-93.4 margin in four games this season, which is important to consider when looking over the NBA betting lines.\u00a0 Power forward Blake Griffin hasn\u2019t enjoyed much success in this series, averaging 17.0 points in 11 regular season games against Memphis.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 4-2 ATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 6 points this season, with the OVER going 6-0 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Clippers compiled a 21-9 record from Feb. 10 to April 17, which was good for the fourth-best mark in the league in that span.\u00a0 Los Angeles will want to get off to a good start in this affair, as it went 43-4 when leading after the first quarter, which was the second-best record of its kind behind the Miami Heat.\u00a0 Expect point guard Chris Paul to put up big numbers in this affair, as he\u2019s led his teams to a 4-1 record in Game 1\u2019s during his playoff career, averaging 24.0 points and 11.8 assists.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Clippers due to their 4-0 ATS run at home, while the Grizzlies are 1-4-1 ATS in the last six meetings in this series.<\/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":"

Memphis Grizzlies at Los Angeles Clippers Saturday, 4\/20\/13, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -5 Current Betting Line: Los Angeles -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 179 Current Total:\u00a0 179 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Memphis won five of its last six regular season games, including a 86-70 victory over the Utah Jazz as 4.5-point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[749,837,1371,3354,18,3693],"class_list":["post-28593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-blake-griffin","tag-chris-paul","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28593","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=28593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28594,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28593\/revisions\/28594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}