{"id":28610,"date":"2013-04-21T20:43:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T01:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28610"},"modified":"2013-04-21T20:43:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T01:43:03","slug":"nba-betting-odds-and-predictions-chicago-bulls-vs-brooklyn-nets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-betting-odds-and-predictions-chicago-bulls-vs-brooklyn-nets-2-28610\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Odds and Predictions: Chicago Bulls vs. Brooklyn Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls at Brooklyn Nets
\nMonday, 4\/22\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Brooklyn -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Brooklyn -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 183
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 183
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Chicago Bulls are 7-5 ATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chicago suffered a 106-89 setback to Brooklyn as 4.5-point road underdogs in Game 1 last Saturday, while going OVER the posted total of 181.5.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re catching a team that\u2019s in rhythm and we\u2019re going to have to re-establish ourselves,\u201d commented Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau.\u00a0 The Bulls were led by the play of power forward Carlos Boozer, who finished with 25 points and eight rebounds, but small forward Luol Deng finished with just six points.\u00a0 Chicago is 7-5 ATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points, with the OVER going 8-4 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 33-29 all-time in Game 2\u2019s in playoff history, but they\u2019ve gone just 5-21 on the road in that situation.\u00a0 Chicago definitely knows it will be an uphill climb in trying to win this series, as the team that wins the first game of a best-of-seven series has won 341 of 438.\u00a0 During the regular season, the franchise went a combined 16-11 versus Eastern Conference playoff teams, including 3-1 versus Monday night\u2019s opponent.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn is playing some of its best basketball of the 2012-13 campaign, as it has won eight of 10 games in the month of April.\u00a0 The Nets got off to a great start in their first postseason appearance since 2007, as they played their first-ever playoff game in the Barclays Center.\u00a0 Point guard Deron Williams scored a team-high 22 points, while center Brook Lopez contributed 21 on 7 of 15 shooting from the floor.\u00a0 Brooklyn is 7-9 ATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 6 points, with the OVER going 11-6 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Nets haven\u2019t won the first two games of a playoff series since 2004 when they swept the New York Knicks in the first round.\u00a0 Brooklyn\u2019s 106 points were the most its scored in regulation in the postseason since 2004, as it finished with a plus-20 advantage in points in the paint.\u00a0 The team was 26-4 when scoring 100-plus points in a game this season, while it won 35 of 41 games when having a lead entering the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 12-4 in the last 16 meetings in Brooklyn.<\/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":"

Chicago Bulls at Brooklyn Nets Monday, 4\/22\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Brooklyn -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Brooklyn -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 183 Current Total:\u00a0 183 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Chicago suffered a 106-89 setback to Brooklyn as 4.5-point road underdogs in Game 1 last Saturday, while going OVER the posted total of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[7156,7131,2067,174,2895,3622,18],"class_list":["post-28610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-barclays-center","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-carlos-boozer","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-deron-williams","tag-eastern-conference","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28610","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=28610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28611,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28610\/revisions\/28611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}