{"id":33638,"date":"2014-03-25T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33638"},"modified":"2014-03-25T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T17:51:03","slug":"new-york-knicks-vs-los-angeles-lakers-pro-basketball-odds-and-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/new-york-knicks-vs-los-angeles-lakers-pro-basketball-odds-and-picks-33638\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks vs. Los Angeles Lakers: Pro Basketball Odds and Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks vs. Los Angeles Lakers
\nTuesday, 3\/25\/14, 10:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New York -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 217
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 216.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The New York Knicks haven’t enjoyed their recent visits to the Staples Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York had its eight-game winning streak snapped Sunday, as it suffered a 106-100 setback to the Cleveland Cavaliers as 10-point home favorites, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in three contests.\u00a0 The Knicks have three of five probable starters averaging in double figures, with forward Carmelo Anthony leading the way at 28.1 points a contest, which is important to consider when making your pro basketball picks.\u00a0 The franchise is 13-20 SU on the road this season, including a 4-6 mark versus Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 New York is 2-4 SU and 1-5 ATS versus Pacific division foes.<\/p>\n

The Knicks have tallied a 6-9 SU record on the front end of back-to-backs during the 2013-14 campaign, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro basketball odds page.\u00a0 New York is looking to snap a six-game losing streak in this series when playing inside the Staples Center.\u00a0 Over its last nine games, the team is outscoring opponents by an average of 12.0 points a contest.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles put an end to a four-game losing streak last time out, as it picked up a 103-94 victory over the Orlando Magic as 3.5-point home favorites Sunday, while going UNDER the betting total of 217.\u00a0 The Lakers are 12-22 SU at home this season, including a 4-10 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Offensively, the squad ranks 12th in the league in averaging 102.0 points per game, but it sits behind 27 teams in second-chance opportunities.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 0-4 SU and 1-3 ATS as home underdogs of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Lakers dropped a 110-103 decision to the Knicks in the last regular season meeting at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 26, but it\u2019s important to point out that the franchise was finishing its seven-game, 13-day Grammy Trip.\u00a0 Los Angeles was outrebounded by 10 and allowed 21 second-chance points.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Lakers due to the home team covering the number in the last five meetings in this series.<\/p>\n

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New York Knicks vs. Los Angeles Lakers Tuesday, 3\/25\/14, 10:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New York -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 217 Current Total:\u00a0 216.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New York had its eight-game winning streak snapped Sunday, as it suffered a 106-100 setback to the Cleveland Cavaliers as 10-point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[49,68,18,115,3624],"class_list":["post-33638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-staples-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33638","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=33638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33639,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33638\/revisions\/33639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}