{"id":31625,"date":"2013-12-04T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31625"},"modified":"2013-12-04T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T21:41:00","slug":"nba-picks-san-antonio-spurs-vs-minnesota-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-san-antonio-spurs-vs-minnesota-timberwolves-31625\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: San Antonio Spurs vs. Minnesota Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs vs. Minnesota Timberwolves
\nWednesday, 12\/4\/13, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBATV
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Antonio -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 205.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 206
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The San Antonio Spurs are off to another great start this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

San Antonio is 15-3 on the season so far, which included tying the best start in franchise history by winning 13 of its first 14 games, as it prepares to play south of the United States border inside the Mexico City Arena Wednesday night.\u00a0 The Spurs have alternated wins and losses over their last five games, as they picked up a 102-100 victory over the Atlanta Hawks as 12-point home favorites Monday, while going OVER the betting total for a third consecutive contest.\u00a0 San Antonio is 20-8 ATS after three or more consecutive OVERs in the last two-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NBA betting lines in this Western Conference matchup.<\/p>\n

The Spurs have been getting tremendous production from their bench since the start of the season, with the unit averaging 44.0 points and 16.7 rebounds per game.\u00a0 San Antonio is putting together an outstanding season despite not having a player ranked in the top-25 in points or rebounding and only having one player averaging 30 minutes or more.\u00a0 Defensively, the unit is one of only six to be ranked in the top-10 in both points allowed and opponent field goal percentage, which is important to consider when making your pro basketball picks.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has dropped four of its last five games, including a 113-103 defeat to the Oklahoma City Thunder as 8.5-point road underdogs Sunday, while going OVER the betting total for a third consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Timberwolves have won four of their past seven meetings with the Spurs, while the two teams split four games during the 2012-13 season series.\u00a0 The formula is pretty simple, with the team posting a 9-6 record when scoring 100-plus points and losing all four affairs when failing to hit the century mark.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves will need a huge performance out of forward Kevin Love, who has averaged 22.0 points and 17.1 rebounds in his last seven games against the Spurs, but he\u2019s shot 34.3 percent from the field in his last four games on the floor.\u00a0 Minnesota ranks third in the league in averaging 105.9 points per game, with 20.1 of those coming from points off turnovers.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Spurs due to their 10-3 ATS record in their last 13 games versus teams with a losing record.<\/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":"

San Antonio Spurs vs. Minnesota Timberwolves Wednesday, 12\/4\/13, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBATV Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Antonio -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 205.5 Current Total:\u00a0 206 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker San Antonio is 15-3 on the season so far, which included tying the best start in franchise history by winning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[12,7843,677,18,141],"class_list":["post-31625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-kevin-love","tag-mexico-city","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31625","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=31625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31627,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31625\/revisions\/31627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}