{"id":31970,"date":"2013-12-22T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31970"},"modified":"2013-12-22T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T17:45:10","slug":"nba-picks-toronto-raptors-vs-oklahoma-city-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-toronto-raptors-vs-oklahoma-city-thunder-31970\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Toronto Raptors vs. Oklahoma City Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Raptors vs. Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong>
\n Sunday, 12\/22\/13, 7:00 PM EST<\/strong>
\n Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -11<\/strong>
\n Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -10<\/strong>
\n Opening Total:\u00a0 203.5<\/strong>
\n Current Total:\u00a0 206<\/strong>
\n Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma City Thunder have won all 13 of their home games this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Toronto has won and covered the number in three of its last four games, as it comes off a 109-108 overtime victory over the Dallas Mavericks as 6.5-point road underdogs last Friday, while going OVER the betting total for the fourth time in five contests.\u00a0 The Raptors continue a three-game Western Conference road trip in this affair\u2014with those three opponents having a combined record of 33-5 at home this season.\u00a0 All five starters scored in double figures for the fourth time this season last time out, which is important to consider when making your NBA betting picks.\u00a0 Toronto is 3-11 SU and 10-4 ATS as a\u00a0 road underdog of 9.5 to 12 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Raptors have scored 40-plus points in the paint in eight straight games\u2014ranking 15th in the league in averaging 41.2 in that particular area over the course of the 2013-14 campaign.\u00a0 Toronto has split its 12 road games this season, as it has knocked down 36 percent of its three-point shots in that situation\u2014compared to just 32.1 percent when playing at home.\u00a0 Point guard Kyle Lowry is the main player to watch in this affair, as he\u2019s averaging 16.8 points and 7.4 assists in nine games this month.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City has won nine games in a row, including a 113-100 victory over the San Antonio Spurs as three-point road underdogs last night, while going OVER the betting total for a second consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Thunder received just 17 points from forward Kevin Durant in that affair, which was 11.3 below his season average, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NBA betting lines.\u00a0 The franchise has won the last three meetings in this series by an average of 16.0 points.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 20-19 ATS when playing on back-to-back days the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Thunder have won all 13 of their games at Chesapeake Energy Arena\u2014the second longest streak in the Oklahoma City era for the franchise.\u00a0 Oklahoma City will need to get after it on the defensive end to pull off a cover in this spot, considering Toronto is averaging 104.5 points in its last six games\u2014an increase of 7.2 from its first 18 to open up the year.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Raptors due to their 7-2 ATS mark in their last nine road games.<\/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":"

Toronto Raptors vs. Oklahoma City Thunder Sunday, 12\/22\/13, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -11 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -10 Opening Total:\u00a0 203.5 Current Total:\u00a0 206 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Toronto has won and covered the number in three of its last four games, as it comes off a 109-108 overtime victory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[6622,1193,18,399,693,3693],"class_list":["post-31970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chesapeake-energy-arena","tag-kevin-durant","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31970","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=31970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31971,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31970\/revisions\/31971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}