{"id":3971,"date":"2009-03-24T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/lakers-thunder-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T11:17:00","slug":"lakers-thunder-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/lakers-thunder-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers-Thunder Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fans at Ford Center will be treated to a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Oklahoma City Thunder when they take their seats on Tuesday. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 8-point favorites versus the Thunder, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>Kobe Bryant dropped 28 points and dished out seven assists to lead the Lakers to a 117-109 victory over the Bulls on Saturday. The Lakers covered the 4-point spread, and the 226 points sailed OVER the posted total of 211.5. <br \/>Pau Gasol chipped in with 23 points and 10 rebounds for a double-double. <br \/>The Thunder defeated Minnesota 97-90 as a 2-point favorite on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (199.5). <br \/>Kevin Durant scored 30 points and grabbed eight rebounds for Oklahoma City and Russell Westbrook had seven points, eight rebounds and 10 assists in the win. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Los Angeles has won 2 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Los Angeles: 55-14 SU, 34-34-1 ATS <br \/>Oklahoma City: 20-50 SU, 41-28-1 ATS <br \/>Los Angeles most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Detroit are 8-2<br \/>After playing Chicago are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Toronto are 2-8<br \/>After playing Minnesota are 2-8<br \/>After a win are 5-5<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>LA Lakers are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games when playing Oklahoma City<br \/>LA Lakers are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games when playing on the road against Oklahoma City<br \/>LA Lakers are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games <br \/>LA Lakers are 17-5 SU in their last 22 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oklahoma City&#39;s last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oklahoma City&#39;s last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oklahoma City&#39;s last 7 games when playing LA Lakers<br \/>Oklahoma City is 16-6-1 ATS in its last 23 games at home<br \/>Next up:<br \/>LA Lakers at Detroit, Thursday, March 26<br \/>Oklahoma City at Toronto, Friday, March 27<\/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 fans at Ford Center will be treated to a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Oklahoma City Thunder when they take their seats on Tuesday. Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 8-point favorites versus the Thunder, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. Kobe Bryant dropped 28 points and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/lakers-thunder-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lakers-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-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","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=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}