{"id":28635,"date":"2013-04-24T20:11:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T01:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28635"},"modified":"2013-04-24T20:11:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T01:11:57","slug":"nba-playoff-picks-brooklyn-nets-vs-chicago-bulls-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-playoff-picks-brooklyn-nets-vs-chicago-bulls-game-3-28635\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playoff Picks: Brooklyn Nets vs. Chicago Bulls, Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn Nets at Chicago Bulls
\nThursday, 4\/25\/13, 8:30 PM EST, TV: \u00a0NBATV
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 181
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 181
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Chicago Bulls were 13-28 ATS at home during the regular season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brooklyn will try to regain home-court advantage in its Eastern Conference first round series with Chicago Thursday, as it suffered a 90-82 setback as five-point home favorites in Game 2, while going UNDER the posted total of 183.\u00a0 The Nets went 23-18 overall away from the Barclays Center during the regular season, which is important to consider when making your NBA picks against the spread.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve been through our ups and downs to get this far,\u201d commented Nets guard Joe Johnson.\u00a0 Brooklyn is 8-4 ATS when playing with two days rest.<\/p>\n

The Nets are being led by center Brook Lopez on the offensive end in this series, as he\u2019s averaging 21.0 points, while Johnson is combining with backcourt mate Deron Williams to contribute 31.5.\u00a0 As a franchise, Brooklyn has compiled a 4-3 record in Game 3\u2019s when playing on the road, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro basketball odds page.\u00a0 It\u2019s still important to note that the squad is 7-0 all-time in five and seven-game series when holding home-court advantage.<\/p>\n

Chicago has been led by its front court tandem of Carlos Boozer and Luol Deng, who average averaging 29.5 points per game, as it will likely play the rest of the 2013 NBA playoffs without the services of point guard Derrick Rose.\u00a0 He has sat out the entire regular season with a knee injury, while others on this roster are also banged up.\u00a0 Center Joakim Noah has been battling plantar fasciitis in his right foot.\u00a0 Chicago is 13-28 ATS at home, with the UNDER going 25-16 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 15-6 all-time in Game 3\u2019s, including a 13-5 mark when the series is tied at one game apiece.\u00a0 In five of the six games this season between Chicago and New Jersey\u2014the team that outscored the other in the paint proved victorious.\u00a0 In playoff history, the franchise is 50-9 when holding its opponent to 85 points or less.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 10-1-1 in the Bulls\u2019 last 12 games on two days rest.<\/p>\n

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Brooklyn Nets at Chicago Bulls Thursday, 4\/25\/13, 8:30 PM EST, TV: \u00a0NBATV Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 181 Current Total:\u00a0 181 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Brooklyn will try to regain home-court advantage in its Eastern Conference first round series with Chicago Thursday, as it suffered a 90-82 setback […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3177,7131,2067,174,3622,163,3206,18],"class_list":["post-28635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-brook-lopez","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-carlos-boozer","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-eastern-conference","tag-joakim-noah","tag-luol-deng","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28635","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=28635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28636,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28635\/revisions\/28636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}