{"id":3990,"date":"2009-03-26T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/lakers-pistons-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:28:00","slug":"lakers-pistons-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/lakers-pistons-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers-Pistons Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fans at The Palace of Auburn Hills will be treated to a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Detroit Pistons when they take their seats on Thursday. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 8-point favorites versus the Pistons, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>Kobe Bryant scored 19 points and had four steals, as the Lakers cruised past the Thunder 107-89 on Tuesday night. <br \/>Los Angeles covered as 8-point road favorites as the game played under the 207-point total listed by oddsmakers. <br \/>Reserve Will Bynum put up 20 points and nine assists for Detroit in its 99-91 loss to Chicago on Tuesday night. <br \/>Chicago covered as 5-point home favorites as the game played under the 191-point total posted by oddsmakers. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Los Angeles has won 3 straight games.<br \/>Detroit has lost 2 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Los Angeles: 56-14 SU, 35-34-1 ATS <br \/>Detroit: 34-36 SU, 30-40 ATS <br \/>Los Angeles most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing New Jersey are 6-4<br \/>After playing Oklahoma City are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Detroit most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing Washington are 6-4<br \/>After playing Chicago are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>LA Lakers are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games <br \/>LA Lakers are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games on the road<br \/>LA Lakers are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of the LA Lakers last 5 games <br \/>Detroit is 5-0 SU in their last 5 games when playing at home against LA Lakers<br \/>Detroit is 10-2 SU in their last 12 games when playing LA Lakers<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Detroit&#39;s last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Detroit&#39;s last 5 games at home<br \/>Next up:<br \/>LA Lakers at New Jersey, Friday, March 27<br \/>Detroit at Washington, Saturday, March 28<\/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 The Palace of Auburn Hills will be treated to a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Detroit Pistons when they take their seats on Thursday. Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 8-point favorites versus the Pistons, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. Kobe Bryant scored 19 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/lakers-pistons-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lakers-Pistons 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-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","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=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}