{"id":4466,"date":"2009-05-23T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/lakers-nuggets-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-23T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T13:17:00","slug":"lakers-nuggets-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/lakers-nuggets-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers-Nuggets Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Pepsi Center for the third game of the Western Conference Finals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 4-point favorites versus the Lakers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Nuggets outscored the Lakers in the final quarter Thursday night and came away with a 106-103 victory in Game 2 as they evened the series at a game apiece. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Nuggets won that game as a 5.5-point underdog, while the combined 209 points went UNDER the posted total of 212.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carmelo Anthony led the Nuggets with a game-high 34 points and nine rebounds. Chauncey Billups chipped in with 27 points in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kobe Bryant led the Lakers with 32 points and five rebounds. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Los Angeles: 65-17 SU, 42-39-1 ATS
Denver: 54-28 SU, 45-36-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Los Angeles most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Denver are 10-0
After playing Denver are 6-4
After a loss are 9-1<\/p>\n

Denver most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing LA Lakers are 6-4
After playing LA Lakers are 5-5
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of the LA Lakers last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of the LA Lakers last 5 games when playing on the road against Denver
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of the LA Lakers last 9 games when playing Denver
LA Lakers are 11-2 SU in their last 13 games when playing Denver
Denver is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Denver is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Denver’s last 5 games when playing at home against LA Lakers
Denver is 11-0-1 ATS in its last 12 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
LA Lakers at Denver, Monday, May 25
Denver home to LA Lakers, Monday, May 25<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Pepsi Center for the third game of the Western Conference Finals. Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 4-point favorites versus the Lakers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Nuggets … Continue reading Lakers-Nuggets Lines Preview<\/span> →<\/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-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","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=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}