{"id":28601,"date":"2013-04-21T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T17:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28601"},"modified":"2013-04-21T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T17:20:28","slug":"nba-playoff-picks-los-angeles-lakers-vs-san-antonio-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-playoff-picks-los-angeles-lakers-vs-san-antonio-spurs-28601\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playoff Picks: Los Angeles Lakers vs. San Antonio Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers at San Antonio Spurs
\nSunday, 4\/21\/13, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Antonio -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -8.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 193
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 190.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The San Antonio Spurs are 8-4-1 as home favorites of 6.5 to 9 points this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Los Angeles won its last five games of the 2012-13 regular season, including a 99-95 overtime victory over the Houston Rockets as 2.5-point home favorites last Wednesday, while going UNDER the posted total of 203.\u00a0 The Lakers will be playing the 2013 NBA playoffs without the services of star guard Kobe Bryant, who suffered a torn Achilles\u2019 tendon.\u00a0 The team dropped two of three meetings against San Antonio this season, while it has gone 4-6 in its last 10 trips to the Lone Star State in this series.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 8-16 ATS as underdogs, which is important to consider when looking over the pro basketball odds page Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Lakers were 16-25 overall during the regular season when playing away from the Staples Center, including a 9-17 mark versus Western Conference foes.\u00a0 Los Angeles ranked sixth in the league in averaging 102.2 points per game, but finished last in free-throw shooting.\u00a0 The franchise is 3-8 when not holding home-court advantage in the opening round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

San Antonio lost its final three games, including a 108-95 setback to the Minnesota Timberwolves as nine-point home favorites last Wednesday, while going OVER the total for the third time in four opportunities.\u00a0 The Spurs are expecting to have sixth man Manu Ginobili back on the floor, who missed the final nine games with a strained right hamstring.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m going to try to contribute any way or form I can,\u201d commented Ginobili.\u00a0 San Antonio is 8-4-1 ATS as home favorites of 6.5 to 9 points, with the UNDER going 8-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 35-6 overall at the AT&T Center, including a 23-4 mark versus conference rivals.\u00a0 San Antonio is led offensively by forward Tim Duncan and point guard Tony Parker, who combined to average 32.0 points in three meetings against Los Angeles during the 2012-13 campaign.\u00a0 Since this venue opened during the 2002-03 season, the team has compiled a 54-19 postseason record\u2014averaging 99.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 16-5 in the Spurs last 21 games following a double-digit loss at home.<\/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":"

Los Angeles Lakers at San Antonio Spurs Sunday, 4\/21\/13, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Antonio -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 193 Current Total:\u00a0 190.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Los Angeles won its last five games of the 2012-13 regular season, including a 99-95 overtime victory over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[4195,67,68,18,83,141,3350,3693],"class_list":["post-28601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-att-center","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-tim-duncan","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28601","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=28601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28602,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28601\/revisions\/28602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}