{"id":10647,"date":"2011-03-09T04:37:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T04:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=10647"},"modified":"2011-03-09T04:37:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T04:37:51","slug":"nba-selections-oklahoma-city-1-at-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/nba-selections-oklahoma-city-1-at-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Selections: Oklahoma City (+1) at Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper<\/a> Matt Rivers has a free pick for Wednesday on Oklahoma City (+1) at Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Reasoning: Let me first start by saying that you should play this game early because the only line movement you will see will be on the Thunder and against you. Why? Because the line that I am seeing is soft with Philadelphia on the back-to-back with travel.<\/p>\n

Doug Collins has done a great job with the 76ers reviving the team and the franchise as a whole\u00a0after some rough last few years. I\u2019m not saying this Philly team has gotten over\u00a0the hump at all but after the terrible 3-13 start they have turned things around and\u00a0are playing some\u00a0great ball of late.\u00a0For them to currently\u00a0be 33-30\u00a0shows me\u00a0a team that is making great strides. But with that said they are in an extremely difficult spot tonight playing\u00a0for the never easy second straight night\u00a0after the victory in Indiana\u00a0yesterday and are also hitting the court for a third game in four nights. To ask the 76ers to keep pace\u00a0in this spot just\u00a0does not seem all that probable\u00a0against what is the superior team in Oklahoma City and the fresher team in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

The Thunder\u00a0are rapidly growing into an elite squad. Getting Kendrick Perkins was a nice little piece in the middle to go along with a pair of superstars in Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. These guys almost knocked off the Lakers last season in the playoffs and are 39-23 this season.<\/p>\n

The 6ers are at home which is never a bad thing but they also are not going to have enough legs to be able to slow down Westbrook and Durant. Andre Iguodala has played a ton better of late and things have been going Philadelphia\u2019s way but tonight is just too tall of a task and one that they are not going to succeed in.<\/p>\n

The City of Brotherly Love will be friendly to the visiting Thunder as they take care of business going away.<\/p>\n

Top expert pick<\/a> on this game: Oklahoma City<\/p>\n

For more information: <\/strong>The 400,000* on Butler was beyond easy and in pretty much wire-to-wire fashion and the 300,000* on the 9 \u00bd point underdog in South Florida won outright! That\u2019s now a phenomenal 1.2 million* of profit over the last two days alone. More of the same today with a pair of plays, including another 400,000* between Houston and Marshall plus a bonus 200,000* in the Association involving Detroit and San Antonio. Just another 2-0 sweep! Wednesday\u2019s card is up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free pick for Wednesday on Oklahoma City (+1) at Philadelphia. Reasoning: Let me first start by saying that you should play this game early because the only line movement you will see will be on the Thunder and against you. Why? Because the line that I am … Continue reading NBA Selections: Oklahoma City (+1) at Philadelphia<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10649,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions\/10649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}