{"id":28805,"date":"2013-05-18T08:47:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T13:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28805"},"modified":"2013-05-18T08:47:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T13:47:51","slug":"nba-playoff-picks-new-york-knicks-vs-indiana-pacers-game-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-playoff-picks-new-york-knicks-vs-indiana-pacers-game-6-28805\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playoff Picks: New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers, Game 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks at Indiana Pacers
\nSaturday, 5\/18\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 178
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 179
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Indiana Pacers have dominated opponents at home during the 2013 NBA playoffs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York avoided elimination from the 2013 NBA playoffs by picking up an 85-75 victory over Indiana as five-point home favorites in Game 5, while going UNDER the betting total of 181.5.\u00a0 The Knicks were led on the offensive end by forward Carmelo Anthony, who scored a game-high 28 points, while Chris Copeland added 13 off the bench.\u00a0 \u201cWe gotta pump each other up when we get off that plane and get ready for Saturday night,\u201d stated Knicks coach Mike Woodson.\u00a0 New York is 2-4 ATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points, which is important to consider when making your NBA picks against the spread.<\/p>\n

The Knicks have lost all four meetings with the Pacers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse dating back to the start of the regular season, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro basketball odds page.\u00a0 Anthony will have to have a huge game in hopes of pushing this best-of-seven series to a decisive final game, which is certainly possible, as he led the league in averaging 28.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Indiana has won all five of its home games during the postseason thus far, but the squad could be without point guard George Hill for a second consecutive contest, as he continues to deal with concussion symptoms.\u00a0 The Pacers are averaging 90.7 points per game, while holding foes to 88.5 points on 41.7 percent shooting.\u00a0 The franchise has owned a 3-2 lead in a seven-game series six times in playoff history\u2014posting a 3-3 mark in Game 6 in that situation.\u00a0 Indiana is 9-3 ATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 6 points, with the OVER going 7-5 in those 12 opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Pacers will likely rely heavily on their defense in hopes of advancing to the conference finals to take on the Miami Heat, as they held foes to 90.7 points per game, which ranked behind only the Memphis Grizzlies in that statistical category.\u00a0 Indiana led the NBA in defensive field goal percentage, while limiting foes to just 5.4 3-point makes per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the UNDER is 3-0-1 in the last four 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":"

New York Knicks at Indiana Pacers Saturday, 5\/18\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -5 Opening Total:\u00a0 178 Current Total:\u00a0 179 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New York avoided elimination from the 2013 NBA playoffs by picking up an 85-75 victory over Indiana as five-point home favorites in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[7441,6433,49,3928,565,115],"class_list":["post-28805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-2013-nba-playoffs","tag-bankers-life-fieldhouse","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-george-hill","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-new-york-knicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28805","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=28805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28806,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28805\/revisions\/28806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}