{"id":32532,"date":"2014-01-15T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32532"},"modified":"2014-01-14T21:48:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T02:48:40","slug":"nba-picks-denver-nuggets-vs-golden-state-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-denver-nuggets-vs-golden-state-warriors-32532\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Denver Nuggets vs. Golden State Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver Nuggets vs. Golden State Warriors
\nWednesday, 1\/15\/14, 10:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Golden State -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Golden State -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 212
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 213
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Golden State Warriors are 11-1 SU in their last 12 games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Denver had its five-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it dropped a 118-103 decision to the Utah Jazz as six-point road favorites Monday, while going OVER the betting total for the sixth time in seven contests.\u00a0 The Nuggets are 8-10 SU on the road, including a 4-8 mark versus Western Conference opponents, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NBA betting lines.\u00a0 The franchise needs to start turning things around defensively, as it has allowed an average of 114 points over its last five games away from the Pepsi Center.\u00a0 Denver is 5-10 SU and 9-6 ATS as road underdogs of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets will need a big game out of point guard Ty Lawson, who is averaging 11.6 assists during this particular calendar month, as he\u2019ll be matched up with Warriors leading scorer Stephen Curry.\u00a0 Denver entered its last contest with the bench ranked third in the league in averaging 42.0 points per game.\u00a0 The team\u2019s reserves have outscored their opponents counterparts in 28 of its first 36 games of the 2013-14 campaign.<\/p>\n

Golden State has won 11 of its last 12 games, including a 99-97 victory over the Boston Celtics as 11.5-point home favorites last time out, while going UNDER the betting total of 204.5.\u00a0 The Warriors have four of five probable starters averaging in double figures, while that particular group has won 20 of 24 games when playing with one another since opening night.\u00a0 Curry ranks second in the league in assists per game, third in 3-pointers made and eighth in scoring.\u00a0 Golden State is 3-1 SUATS as home favorites of 6.5 to 9 points this season.<\/p>\n

The Warriors are 12-4 SU at Oracle Arena, including a 9-4 mark versus conference rivals.\u00a0 Golden State earned an 89-81 victory over Denver as 1.5-point road favorites in the first meeting this season on Dec. 23, with that contest falling short of the betting total of 208.\u00a0 The franchise has played a league-high 23 road games in comparison to just 16 affairs in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Nuggets due to the underdog being 5-2 ATS in the last seven meetings.<\/p>\n

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Denver Nuggets vs. Golden State Warriors Wednesday, 1\/15\/14, 10:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Golden State -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Golden State -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 212 Current Total:\u00a0 213 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Denver had its five-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it dropped a 118-103 decision to the Utah Jazz as six-point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[526,1011,18,4492,14,216],"class_list":["post-32532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-nba","tag-oracle-arena","tag-stephen-curry","tag-ty-lawson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32532","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=32532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32533,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32532\/revisions\/32533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}