{"id":3951,"date":"2009-03-22T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/thunder-timberwolves-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-22T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T13:03:00","slug":"thunder-timberwolves-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/thunder-timberwolves-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder-Timberwolves Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma City Thunder and the Minnesota Timberwolves will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Target Center. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Thunder listed as 1-point favorites versus the Timberwolves, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>Kevin Durant paced Oklahoma City with 24 points and 12 rebounds in its 101-94 loss to Utah on Friday night. <br \/>Utah covered as 5-point road favorites as the game played under the 200-point total posted by oddsmakers. <br \/>Craig Smith led Minnesota with 19 points and seven boards off the bench in its 107-88 loss to Houston on Friday night. <br \/>Houston cashed as 11.5-point home favorites as the game played over the 193-point total listed by sportsbooks. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Oklahoma City has lost 2 straight games.<br \/>Minnesota has lost 3 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Oklahoma City: 19-50 SU, 40-28-1 ATS <br \/>Minnesota: 20-49 SU, 31-37-1 ATS <br \/>Oklahoma City most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing LA Lakers are 2-8<br \/>After playing Utah are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Atlanta are 4-6<br \/>After playing Houston are 2-8<br \/>After a loss are 2-8<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Oklahoma City&#39;s last 7 games <br \/>Oklahoma City is 8-2 ATS in its last 10 games when playing Minnesota<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Oklahoma City&#39;s last 5 games when playing Minnesota<br \/>Oklahoma City is 7-3 SU in its last 10 games when playing Minnesota<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Minnesota&#39;s last 5 games when playing Oklahoma City<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Minnesota&#39;s last 12 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Minnesota&#39;s last 7 games at home<br \/>Minnesota is 14-6 SU in its last 20 games when playing at home against Oklahoma City<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Oklahoma City home to LA Lakers, Tuesday, March 24<br \/>Minnesota at Atlanta, Monday, March 23<\/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 Oklahoma City Thunder and the Minnesota Timberwolves will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Target Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Thunder listed as 1-point favorites versus the Timberwolves, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. Kevin Durant paced Oklahoma City with 24 points and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/thunder-timberwolves-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thunder-Timberwolves Odds 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-3951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951","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=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}