{"id":4193,"date":"2009-04-12T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/grizzlies-lakers-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-12T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T15:29:00","slug":"grizzlies-lakers-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/grizzlies-lakers-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies-Lakers Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Grizzlies and the Los Angeles Lakers will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at STAPLES Center. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 11&#189;-point favorites versus the Grizzlies, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>The Grizzlies dominated most of the night as they cruised to a 106-89 upset victory over the Suns on Friday, as 2.5-point underdogs. The combined score fell UNDER the posted total of 227. <br \/>O.J. Mayo led the Grizzlies with 20 points, four rebounds and six assists. Rudy Gay added 20 points with six rebounds in the win. <br \/>Kobe Bryant netted a game-high 32 points with five rebounds in the Lakers 106-98 loss to the Trail Blazers last time out. The 204 points made it OVER the posted total of 194. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Memphis: 23-56 SU, 38-40-1 ATS <br \/>Los Angeles: 63-17 SU, 40-39-1 ATS <br \/>Memphis most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Phoenix are 1-9<br \/>After playing Phoenix are 3-7<br \/>After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing Utah are 8-2<br \/>After playing Portland are 8-2<br \/>After a loss are 7-3<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Memphis is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games <br \/>Memphis is 8-1 ATS in their last 9 games when playing on the road against LA Lakers<br \/>Memphis is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>Memphis is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games when playing LA Lakers<br \/>LA Lakers are 11-1 SU in their last 12 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of the LA Lakers last 8 games at home<br \/>LA Lakers are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games <br \/>LA Lakers are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games when playing Memphis<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Memphis at Phoenix, Monday, April 13<br \/>LA Lakers home to Utah, Tuesday, April 14<\/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 Memphis Grizzlies and the Los Angeles Lakers will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at STAPLES Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Lakers listed as 11&#189;-point favorites versus the Grizzlies, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. The Grizzlies dominated most of the night as they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/grizzlies-lakers-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grizzlies-Lakers 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-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","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=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}