{"id":2897,"date":"2008-12-05T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/lakers-wizards-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-05T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T12:42:00","slug":"lakers-wizards-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/lakers-wizards-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers-Wizards Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Los Angeles Lakers and the Washington Wizards will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Verizon<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 12-point favorites versus the Wizards, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Lakers rebounded from just their second loss with a 114-102 victory over the 76ers on Wednesday. The Lakers covered the 9-point spread, while the 216 points sailed OVER the posted total of 201. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kobe Bryant dropped 32 points with six rebounds and four assists in leading the way. Pau Gasol chipped in with 22 points in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Wizards fell 98-92 to the Trail Blazers last time out, as 7-point underdogs. The combined 190 points fell UNDER the posted total of 192.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Antawn Jamison led the Wizards with 22 points and four rebounds in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 15-2 SU, 11-6 ATS
Washington: 3-13 SU, 6-10 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Los Angeles most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Milwaukee are 9-1
After playing Philadelphia are 7-3
After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n

Washington most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing Chicago are 6-4
After playing Portland are 6-4
After a loss are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of the LA Lakers last 5 games
LA Lakers are 8-1 SU in their last 9 games
LA Lakers are 7-1 ATS in their last 8 games when playing on the road against Washington
LA Lakers are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 10 of Washington’s last 14 games when playing LA Lakers
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Washington’s last 12 games
The total has gone OVER in 16 of Washington’s last 24 games at home
Washington is 8-15 ATS in its last 23 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
LA Lakers home to Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, December 7
Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, December 6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Los Angeles Lakers and the Washington Wizards will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Verizon Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 12-point favorites versus the Wizards, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Lakers rebounded from just their second loss with … Continue reading Lakers-Wizards Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","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=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}