{"id":28717,"date":"2013-05-04T15:25:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T20:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28717"},"modified":"2013-05-04T15:25:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T20:25:21","slug":"nba-playoffs-2013-chicago-bulls-vs-brooklyn-nets-game-7-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-playoffs-2013-chicago-bulls-vs-brooklyn-nets-game-7-picks-28717\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playoffs 2013: Chicago Bulls vs. Brooklyn Nets, Game 7 Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls at Brooklyn Nets
\nSaturday, 5\/4\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Brooklyn -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Brooklyn -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 183
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 181.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Chicago Bulls are 2-7 SU as road underdogs of 6.5 to 12 points this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chicago is certainly up against it after losing back-to-back games, including a 95-92 setback as one-point home underdogs Thursday night, while going OVER the total for a third consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Bulls are 0-6 all time when playing a Game 7 on the road, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NBA picks against the spread Saturday night.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a fight,\u201d commented Bulls guard Jimmy Butler.\u00a0 \u201cThe tougher team is going to get the win.\u201d\u00a0 Chicago is 2-7 SU and 3-6 ATS as road underdogs of 6.5 to 12 points this season, with the UNDER going 6-3 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are being led by point guard Nate Robinson and forward Carlos Boozer on the offensive end, as their averaging 17.8 and 17.5 points per game respectively, as they prepare to play without Luol Deng and Derrick Rose.\u00a0 Chicago is averaging 98.2 points per game in this series, but is allowing 101.6 due to Brooklyn knocking down 45.1 percent of its shots.\u00a0 Defensively, the team ranked third in the league during the regular season in surrendering 92.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn has won and covered the spread in the last two games of this best-of-seven series, as it now looks to become just the ninth team in NBA history to overcome a 3-1 series deficit.\u00a0 \u201cThe reward for the way we played in the regular season is that this Game 7 in the first round is in our building,\u201d stated Nets coach P.J. Carlesimo.\u00a0 The home team is 4-1 in Game 7\u2019s played between four and five seeds in the NBA playoff history.\u00a0 Brooklyn is 6-6-1 ATS as home favorites of 6.5 to 9 points, which is important to consider when looking over the NBA betting lines.<\/p>\n

The Nets have all five probable starters averaging in double figures during this series, with center Brook Lopez leading the way, scoring 22.5 points and grabbing 7.2 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Brooklyn finished the regular season with a solid 26-15 record at the Barclays Center, including a 20-6 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the OVER is 13-5 in the last 18 meetings in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

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Chicago Bulls at Brooklyn Nets Saturday, 5\/4\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Brooklyn -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Brooklyn -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 183 Current Total:\u00a0 181.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Chicago is certainly up against it after losing back-to-back games, including a 95-92 setback as one-point home underdogs Thursday night, while going OVER […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[7156,3177,7131,2067,174,3622,3206,4238,83],"class_list":["post-28717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-barclays-center","tag-brook-lopez","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-carlos-boozer","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-eastern-conference","tag-luol-deng","tag-nate-robinson","tag-nba-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28717","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=28717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28718,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28717\/revisions\/28718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}