{"id":4069,"date":"2009-04-05T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/knicks-raptors-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-05T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T13:17:00","slug":"knicks-raptors-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/knicks-raptors-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks-Raptors Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks and the Toronto Raptors will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Air Canada Centre. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Raptors listed as 5&#189;-point favorites versus the Knicks, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>The Raptors held off a late charge and upset the Knicks 102-95 in the opener of a home-and-home set on Saturday, as 3-point road underdogs. That game&#39;s combined 197 points went UNDER the posted total of 220.5. <br \/>Andrea Bargnani led the Raptors in their sixth straight win, scoring 23 points and hauling down seven boards. Chris Bosh had a double-double with 17 points and 13 rebounds. <br \/>Chris Duhon and Al Harrington netted 22 points apiece for the Knicks. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>New York has lost 4 straight games.<br \/>Toronto has won 6 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>New York: 29-47 SU, 43-32-1 ATS <br \/>Toronto: 30-45 SU, 30-42-3 ATS <br \/>New York most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Chicago are 3-7<br \/>After playing Toronto are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 2-8<\/p>\n<p>Toronto most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Atlanta are 7-3<br \/>After playing New York are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 7-3<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>New York is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of New York&#39;s last 6 games on the road<br \/>New York is 2-7 ATS in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Toronto<br \/>New York is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing Toronto<br \/>Toronto is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Toronto is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against New York<br \/>Toronto is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home<br \/>Toronto is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games at home<br \/>Next up:<br \/>New York at Chicago, Tuesday, April 7<br \/>Toronto home to Atlanta, Tuesday, April 7<\/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 New York Knicks and the Toronto Raptors will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Air Canada Centre. Oddsmakers currently have the Raptors listed as 5&#189;-point favorites versus the Knicks, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. The Raptors held off a late charge and upset the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/knicks-raptors-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Knicks-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-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","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=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}