{"id":4421,"date":"2009-05-16T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/official-betting-previews-lakers-rockets-magic-celtics\/"},"modified":"2009-05-16T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T01:25:00","slug":"official-betting-previews-lakers-rockets-magic-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/official-betting-previews-lakers-rockets-magic-celtics\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Betting Previews: Lakers-Rockets, Magic-Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Put aside the winnings from the <span class=SpellE>Preakness<\/span> results as filly Rachel Alexander and Jess Jackson sets sight on the Belmont Stakes after the <span class=SpellE>Preakness<\/span> payouts. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Orlando Magic-Boston Celtics and the <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Rockets-<st1:City><st1:place>Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Lakers each battle in Game 7s on Sunday. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span>Let&#8217;s check out the betting previews. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The NBA <span class=GramE>odds at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beted.com\/9d3a6ca1-61c8\"><span class=SpellE>BetED<\/span><\/a> has<\/span> <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> a 2.5 point favorite with a total of 186 at <a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.earnreal.com\/clickthrough.asp?br=27003&amp;aff=1000339&amp;cmp=118021\">Sports Betting Sportsbook<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:City><st1:place><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span   style='font-size:12.0pt'>Boston<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 49-26 straight up including 40-8 at home. <st1:City><st1:place>Orlando<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 66-28 straight up, 30-17 on the road. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Magic allows just 93.9 points per game to teams normally getting 99.5. <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> allows 94.6 to 99.8. Each team scores less than a point more than their opponent normally allows. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Now <span class=GramE>some betting<\/span> trends, all records against the spread: the Magic are 44-19 as an underdog of 4.5 or less. <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 4-12 in the Conference semifinals. <st1:City><st1:place>Orlando<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has gone under 21-8 their last 39. <st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has gone over 13-3 off a loss. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Meanwhile the betting line for Houston-LA is the Lakers -12.5 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/\">BetUs Sportsbook<\/a> with the total of 194 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodoglife.com\/welcome\/1861245\/sportsbook\"><span class=SpellE>Bodog<\/span> Life<\/a>.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:City><st1:place><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span   style='font-size:12.0pt'>Houston<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 66-34 straight up but just 22-25 away from home. The Lakers are 72-21 including 41-6 as the home team. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Against the spread trends: <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 3-8 on the road versus an opponent with versus teams with a winning home record. The <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>Lake<\/st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName>Show<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place> has gone under 14-2 off a straight up loss. They&#8217;ve also gone under 23-9 as a favorite. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>For more information: <\/span><\/font><\/b>Get the top <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">NBA picks<\/a> to beat the live <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=31\">NBA odds<\/a> at OffshoreInsiders.com <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\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>Put aside the winnings from the Preakness results as filly Rachel Alexander and Jess Jackson sets sight on the Belmont Stakes after the Preakness payouts. The Orlando Magic-Boston Celtics and the Houston Rockets-Los Angeles Lakers each battle in Game 7s on Sunday. \u00a0Let&#8217;s check out the betting previews. The NBA odds at BetED has Boston &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/official-betting-previews-lakers-rockets-magic-celtics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Official Betting Previews: Lakers-Rockets, Magic-Celtics<\/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-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","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=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}