{"id":4305,"date":"2009-04-25T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/spurs-magic-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-25T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T11:42:00","slug":"spurs-magic-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/spurs-magic-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs-Magic Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The San Antonio Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks will meet on the court at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>American<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Airlines<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> on Saturday in a battle of division rivals. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Mavericks listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Spurs, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Mavericks got out to an early lead and never looked back as they crushed the Spurs 88-67 on Thursday, as 5-point underdogs. That game&#8217;s 155 points went UNDER the posted total of 191. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Dirk Nowitzki led the Mavericks with 20 points and seven rebounds, while <st1:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st2:GivenName>Josh<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Howard<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> added 17 in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Fabricio<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Oberto<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had 10 points and four rebounds in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 54-28 SU, 40-40-2 ATS <br \/>Dallas: 50-32 SU, 40-42 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">San Antonio most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 9-1<br \/>Before playing Dallas are 8-2<br \/>After playing Dallas are 9-1<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<\/p>\n<p>Dallas most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 9-1<br \/>Before playing San Antonio are 6-4<br \/>After playing San Antonio are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 6-4<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of San Antonio&#8217;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>San Antonio is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>San Antonio is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>San Antonio is 8-15 ATS in its last 23 games when playing Dallas<br \/>Dallas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>Dallas is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Dallas&#8217;s last 5 games at home<br \/>Dallas is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st2:Sn>Dallas<\/st2:Sn>, Tuesday, <st2:GivenName>April<\/st2:GivenName> 28<br \/><st2:Sn><st1:City><st1:place>Dallas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> at <st1:City><st1:place>San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, April 28<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\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 San Antonio Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks will meet on the court at American Airlines Center on Saturday in a battle of division rivals. Oddsmakers currently have the Mavericks listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Spurs, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Mavericks got out to an early lead and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/spurs-magic-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spurs-Magic 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-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","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=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}