{"id":3254,"date":"2009-01-08T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/knicks-mavericks-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:54:00","slug":"knicks-mavericks-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/knicks-mavericks-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks-Mavericks Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The New York Knicks and the Dallas Mavericks will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at American<\/st1:PlaceName> Airlines<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Mavericks listed as 7\u00bd-point favorites versus the Knicks, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Al Harrington led New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> with 21 points and four steals off the bench in its 107-99 loss to Oklahoma City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oklahoma City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as 2.5-point home underdogs as the game played under the 220-point total listed by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dirk Nowitzki swished 34 points to lead the Mavericks over the Clippers 107-102 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dallas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> couldn’t cover as 14.5-point home favorites as the game played over the 180-point total listed by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 13-20 SU, 17-16 ATS
Dallas: 21-13 SU, 15-19 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing Houston are 3-7
After playing Oklahoma City are 4-6
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

Dallas most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 8-2
Before playing Phoenix are 6-4
After playing LA Clippers are 6-4
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of New York’s last 5 games
New York is 7-2 ATS in its last 9 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of New York’s last 12 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of New York’s last 6 games when playing Dallas
Dallas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing New York
Dallas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against New York
Dallas is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home
Dallas is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing New York<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, January 10
Dallas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Phoenix<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, January 9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The New York Knicks and the Dallas Mavericks will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at American Airlines Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Mavericks listed as 7\u00bd-point favorites versus the Knicks, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Al Harrington led New York with 21 points and four … Continue reading Knicks-Mavericks Odds 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-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","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=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}