{"id":33600,"date":"2014-03-22T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33600"},"modified":"2014-03-22T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T20:27:30","slug":"nba-picks-indiana-pacers-vs-memphis-grizzlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-indiana-pacers-vs-memphis-grizzlies-33600\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Indiana Pacers vs. Memphis Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana Pacers vs. Memphis Grizzlies
\nSaturday, 3\/22\/14, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Memphis -2
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Memphis -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 180
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 180.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Memphis Grizzlies have played great basketball since the All-Star break<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Indiana has won five of its last six games, including a 91-79 victory over the Chicago Bulls as 6.5-point home favorites Friday, while going UNDER the betting total for the fifth time in that span.\u00a0 The Pacers have all five probable starters averaging double figures, with forward Paul George leading the way at 22.1 points a contest, which is important to consider when making your NBA betting picks.\u00a0 He scored just 10 points on 3 of 13 shooting last time out, but did grab 12 rebounds and dish out 10 assists.\u00a0 Indiana is 7-5 SU and 2-10 ATS in March, with the UNDER going 8-4 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Pacers are 19-14 SU on the road this season, including a 7-7 mark versus Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 Indiana has won three consecutive games against Memphis\u2014aiming for its second straight regular season series sweep.\u00a0 Defensively, the team paces the league in allowing just 35.4 points per game in the paint, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

Memphis had its two-game winning streak snapped Friday, as it dropped a 91-86 decision to the Miami Heat as 4.5-point road underdogs, while going UNDER the betting total for a fifth consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Grizzlies are led by the play of power forward Zach Randolph, who paces the club in averaging 17.2 points and 10.2 rebounds per game.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the franchise is 21-14 SU at home this season, including a 9-3 mark when taking on Eastern Conference foes.\u00a0 Memphis is 6-3 SUATS as home favorites of three or fewer points.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies are averaging 99.0 points on 48.6 percent shooting since the All-Star break, which has led to victories in 11 of 16 games over that span.\u00a0 Memphis does its best work on the offensive end in the final 12 minutes of a game\u2014averaging 25.8 points\u00a0 over that period of time.\u00a0 Since the return of center Marc Gasol from injury, the squad has limited foes to just 90.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Grizzlies due to the home team being 4-1 ATS in the last five 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":"

Indiana Pacers vs. Memphis Grizzlies Saturday, 3\/22\/14, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Memphis -2 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Memphis -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 180 Current Total:\u00a0 180.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Indiana has won five of its last six games, including a 91-79 victory over the Chicago Bulls as 6.5-point home favorites Friday, while going UNDER […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[565,3354,18,1918,1319],"class_list":["post-33600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-paul-george","tag-zach-randolph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600","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=33600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33601,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600\/revisions\/33601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}