{"id":2935,"date":"2008-12-06T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/nuggets-kings-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T14:17:00","slug":"nuggets-kings-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/nuggets-kings-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets-Kings Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Denver Nuggets and the Sacramento Kings will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at ARCO Arena. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 5-point favorites versus the Kings, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Nuggets were upset 108-91 by the Spurs as 4-point favorites last time out. That game&#8217;s 199 points made it OVER the posted total of 194.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Carmelo Anthony had 16 points and six rebounds in a losing effort. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Kevin Martin scored 22 points off the bench for <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Sacramento<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in its 97-94 loss to <st1:State><st1:place>Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> on Tuesday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:State><st1:place>Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> covered as 2.5-point road underdogs as the game played under the 209-point total listed by sportsbooks. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Sacramento<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 7 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 13-7 SU, <st1:date Month=\"12\" Day=\"7\" Year=\"2001\">12-7-1<\/st1:date> ATS <br \/>Sacramento: 5-15 SU, 9-11 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Denver most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Minnesota are 5-5<br \/>After playing San Antonio are 3-7<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing LA Lakers are 5-5<br \/>After playing Utah are 3-7<br \/>After a loss are 2-8<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Denver&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>Denver is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>Denver is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Sacramento<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Denver&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Sacramento<br \/>Sacramento is 20-2 SU in its last 22 games when playing at home against Denver<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Sacramento&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Denver<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Sacramento&#8217;s last 8 games at home<br \/>Sacramento is 7-2-1 ATS in its last 10 games when playing Denver<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Wednesday, December 10<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Sacramento<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to LA Lakers, Tuesday, December 9<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver Nuggets and the Sacramento Kings will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at ARCO Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 5-point favorites versus the Kings, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Nuggets were upset 108-91 by the Spurs as 4-point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/nuggets-kings-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nuggets-Kings Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","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=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}