{"id":4006,"date":"2009-03-27T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/thunder-raptors-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-27T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T11:59:00","slug":"thunder-raptors-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/thunder-raptors-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder-Raptors Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022\tThe fans at Air Canada Centre will be treated to a game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Toronto Raptors when they take their seats on Friday. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Raptors listed as 5&#189;-point favorites versus the Thunder, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>Kevin Durant went for 24 points and six rebounds for the Thunder in their 107-89 loss to the Lakers 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 \/>The Raptors built up a 21 point halftime lead and held off the Bucks for a 115-106 victory on Wednesday. The Raptors managed to cover the 4-point spread, and the combined score made it OVER the posted total of 201. <br \/>Chris Bosh had a double-double with 18 points and 14 rebounds, and Andrea Bargnani netted 23 points in the win. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Toronto has won 2 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Oklahoma City: 20-51 SU, 41-29-1 ATS <br \/>Toronto: 26-45 SU, 26-42-3 ATS <br \/>Oklahoma City most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 2-8<br \/>Before playing Boston are 3-7<br \/>After playing LA Lakers are 2-8<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Toronto most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Chicago are 4-6<br \/>After playing Milwaukee are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 5-5<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oklahoma City&#39;s last 5 games <br \/>Oklahoma City is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Toronto<br \/>Oklahoma City is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Toronto<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Oklahoma City&#39;s last 7 games when playing Toronto<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Toronto&#39;s last 7 games when playing Oklahoma City<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Toronto&#39;s last 5 games when playing at home against Oklahoma City<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 10 of Toronto&#39;s last 13 games <br \/>Toronto is 4-11 SU in its last 15 games when playing Oklahoma City<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Oklahoma City at Boston, Sunday, March 29<br \/>Toronto home to Chicago, Sunday, March 29<\/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>\u2022 The fans at Air Canada Centre will be treated to a game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Toronto Raptors when they take their seats on Friday. Oddsmakers currently have the Raptors listed as 5&#189;-point favorites versus the Thunder, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. Kevin Durant went for 24 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/thunder-raptors-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thunder-Raptors 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-4006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006","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=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}