{"id":4479,"date":"2009-05-25T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/lakers-nuggets-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-25T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T13:40:00","slug":"lakers-nuggets-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/lakers-nuggets-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers-Nuggets Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">The Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Pepsi Center in the fourth game of the Western Conference Finals.  <\/p>\n<div>Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Lakers, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 208.  <\/p>\n<div>Kobe Bryant dropped a game-high 41 points as the Lakers tore apart the Nuggets in the fourth quarter to earn a 103-97 victory on Saturday as 3.5-point underdogs.  <\/p>\n<div>That game&#8217;s 200 points went UNDER the posted total of 212.5.  <\/p>\n<div>Pau Gasol collected a double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds for the Lakers.  <\/p>\n<div>Chauncey Billups had 18 points, six rebounds and seven assists for the Nuggets.  <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Team records:<br \/>Los Angeles: 65-17 SU, 42-39-1 ATS <br \/>Denver: 54-28 SU, 45-36-1 ATS  <\/p>\n<div>Los Angeles most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing Denver are 9-1<br \/>After playing Denver are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>Denver most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing LA Lakers are 6-4<br \/>After playing LA Lakers are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 8-2 <\/p>\n<div>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of the LA Lakers last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of the LA Lakers last 5 games when playing on the road against Denver<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 9 of the LA Lakers last 10 games when playing Denver<br \/>LA Lakers are 12-2 SU in their last 14 games when playing Denver<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Denver&#8217;s last 5 games when playing at home against LA Lakers<br \/>Denver is 16-1 SU in its last 17 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Denver&#8217;s last 10 games when playing LA Lakers<br \/>Denver is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games at home <\/p>\n<div>Next up:<br \/>LA Lakers home to Denver, Wednesday, May 27<br \/>Denver at LA Lakers, Wednesday, May 27<\/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 Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Pepsi Center in the fourth game of the Western Conference Finals. Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 4\u00bd-point favorites versus the Lakers, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 208. Kobe Bryant dropped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/lakers-nuggets-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lakers-Nuggets 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-4479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479","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=4479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}