{"id":32520,"date":"2014-01-14T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32520"},"modified":"2014-01-14T16:50:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T21:50:43","slug":"nba-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-memphis-grizzlies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-memphis-grizzlies-2-32520\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Memphis Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Memphis Grizzlies
\nTuesday, 1\/14\/14, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 192
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 196
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma City Thunder are 6-0 SUATS versus Southwest Division opponents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma City snapped a two-game losing streak in picking up a 101-85 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks as 15-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Thunder are 12-6 SU on the road this season, including a 7-6 mark when playing Western Conference opponents, which is important to consider when making your NBA betting picks.\u00a0 Through the first 37 games of the season, the team is 23-3 when out-rebounding opponents, as it paces the league in grabbing 47.0 boards per game.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 6-0 SUATS versus Southwest division opponents this season.<\/p>\n

The Thunder are limiting opponents to the second worst field goal percentage in the league, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NBA betting lines.\u00a0 Oklahoma City will be looking for a big game from forward Kevin Durant, who is pacing the league in averaging 39.6 points per game, but he\u2019s shooting just 41.4 percent from the floor over his last three contests.\u00a0 Point guard Reggie Jackson is also an important piece to the puzzle, as he\u2019s filling in for starter Russell Westbrook.<\/p>\n

Memphis has won back-to-back games and covered the number in six consecutive affairs, including a 108-101 victory over the Atlanta Hawks as five-point home favorites Sunday.\u00a0 The Grizzlies are 9-12 SU at the FedExForum this season, including a 5-9 mark versus conference rivals.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the franchise has played the toughest schedule to date, but it has gone 17-10 against foes outside of the Southwest Division, but it has dropped all nine against its biggest rivals.\u00a0 Memphis 1-5 SU and 2-4 ATS when revenging a home loss versus an opponent.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies have played 15 of their last 23 games without multiple regular starters, while they\u2019ve already missed 61 games due to injury this season.\u00a0 Memphis\u2019 bench is averaging 40.7 points in its last 15 games.\u00a0 Keep an eye on each team\u2019s shooting percentage when watching this game, as Tuesday night\u2019s host is 16-4 SU when finishing with a higher mark in that statistical category, but just 1-15 when failing to accomplish that feat.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Thunder due to the road team covering the number in 10 of the last 13 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":"

Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Memphis Grizzlies Tuesday, 1\/14\/14, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oklahoma City -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 192 Current Total:\u00a0 196 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma City snapped a two-game losing streak in picking up a 101-85 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks as 15-point home favorites last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[4145,1193,3354,18,399,3693],"class_list":["post-32520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-fedexforum","tag-kevin-durant","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32520","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=32520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32522,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32520\/revisions\/32522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}