{"id":3864,"date":"2009-03-18T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/bulls-thunder-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:17:00","slug":"bulls-thunder-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/bulls-thunder-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls-Thunder Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bulls and the Oklahoma City Thunder will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Ford Center. <br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <br \/>John Salmons poured in 38 points to lead the Bulls past the Celtics 127-121 on Tuesday night. <br \/>Chicago cashed as 2-point home underdogs as the game played over the 195.5-point total set by oddsmakers. <br \/>Kevin Durant dropped 25 points to lift the Thunder past the Spurs 78-76 on Monday night. <br \/>Oklahoma City cashed as 5-point home underdogs as the game played under the 190-point total posted by oddsmakers. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Chicago has won 2 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Chicago: 31-37 SU, 35-32-1 ATS <br \/>Oklahoma City: 19-48 SU, 40-26-1 ATS <br \/>Chicago most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing LA Lakers are 5-5<br \/>After playing Boston are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Utah are 3-7<br \/>After playing San Antonio are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 5-5<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Chicago is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Oklahoma City<br \/>Chicago is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Oklahoma City<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago&#39;s last 5 games when playing Oklahoma City<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago&#39;s last 5 games when playing on the road against Oklahoma City<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oklahoma City&#39;s last 5 games at home<br \/>Oklahoma City is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Oklahoma City&#39;s last 5 games <br \/>Oklahoma City is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Chicago home to LA Lakers, Saturday, March 21<br \/>Oklahoma City home to Utah, Friday, March 20<\/p>\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 Chicago Bulls and the Oklahoma City Thunder will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Ford Center. Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. John Salmons poured in 38 points to lead the Bulls past the Celtics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/bulls-thunder-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bulls-Thunder 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-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","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=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}