{"id":3404,"date":"2009-01-25T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/spurs-lakers-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-25T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T14:45:00","slug":"spurs-lakers-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/spurs-lakers-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs-Lakers Lines 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 San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Lakers will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at <?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st2:place><st2:PlaceName>STAPLES<\/st2:PlaceName> <st2:PlaceType>Center<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place>. <?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 Lakers listed as 6\u00bd-point favorites versus the Spurs, 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 Spurs were locked in a tight contest on Friday, but came away with a hard-fought 94-91 victory over the Nets. The 185 points went UNDER the posted total of 189. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st1:GivenName>Tim<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Duncan<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> had a big game for the Spurs, tossing in a game-high 30 points to go with 15 rebounds in a double-double performance. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Lakers put up 72 points in the first half on Thursday, as they crushed the Wizards 117-97. The Lakers covered the 14-point spread, while the combined score made it OVER the posted total of 208.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Andrew<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Bynum<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the Lakers with a double-double, tossing in 23 points to go with 14 rebounds. Pau Gasol added 18 in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>San Antonio<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> has won 4 straight games.<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>Los Angeles<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> has won 3 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>San Antonio<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>: 29-13 SU, 19-22-1 ATS <br \/>Los Angeles: 34-8 SU, 20-22 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">San Antonio most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 10-0<br \/>Before playing Utah are 7-3<br \/>After playing New Jersey are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Charlotte are 5-3<br \/>After playing Washington are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 8-2<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 UNDER in 8 of San Antonio&#8217;s last 9 games on the road<br \/>San Antonio is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>San Antonio is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of San Antonio&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>LA Lakers are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games when playing at home against San Antonio<br \/>LA Lakers are 19-2 SU in their last 21 games at home<br \/>LA Lakers are 13-3 SU in their last 16 games <br \/>LA Lakers are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games when playing San Antonio<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>San Antonio<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> at <st2:State><st2:place>Utah<\/st2:place><\/st2:State>, Tuesday, January 27<br \/>LA Lakers home to <st1:GivenName><st2:City><st2:place>Charlotte<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:GivenName>, Tuesday, January 27<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 San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Lakers will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at STAPLES Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 6\u00bd-point favorites versus the Spurs, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Spurs were locked in a tight contest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/spurs-lakers-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spurs-Lakers Lines 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-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","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=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}