OklahomaCity Thunder +8 (-105), laying $125 to win $119.05<o
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Oklahoma City Thunder Pick(+305), laying $25 to win $76.25 -- This is the biggest game of the entire regular season in theNBA as you can see by the coverage on ESPN the last 24 hours... Nationallytelevised game on ABC...You can throw the trends out the window for the mostpart tonight... Sure, the Warriors demolished the Thunder twice at Golden State,winning 122-96 on November 3rd (OKC on the back-end of a back-to-back there,though) and winning 121-100 on January 18th... But this one is at OklahomaCity... The energy from the Thunder fans will figuratively blow the rook offthe Chesapeake Energy Arena...<o></o>
And Golden Stateis on the back-end of a back-to-back this time...And they had double-revenge ontheir minds last night and delivered some payback to the Grizzlies with a122-107 win at Memphis last night...Their starters played late into that gameand Draymond Green became the first player in NBA history to notch atriple-double despite scoring just 4 points, as he had 12 rebounds, 10 assistsand 10 steals to go along with 5 blocks...He played with a ton of energy lastnight and the Warriors as a whole showed a lot of energy and focus lastnight...<o></o>
I always look forthe motivational spots when handicapping the NBA or any sport...There isclearly one team here who has all of the motivation to win this game...TheThunder have a triple-revenge spot here as they lost to Golden State in theWestern Conference Finals last year and they have already lost to the Warriorstwice this season, getting throttled in both games...This Thunder team willwant to win one for their Home crowd in Kevin Durant's return to OklahomaCity...<o></o>
Durant had his twohighest-scoring games of the season vs. OKC with 39 in the first game and 40 inthe second meeting...But coming back to "boos" of his former homecrowd could potentially be a little unnerving in front of what will be a veryemotional crowd in his first game back...<o></o>
The Warriors are8-2 straight-up on the back-end of back-to-backs this season, but just 3-7 ATSin those same 10 spots...The Warriors have been dealing with inflated lines allseason long and tonight is no exception...<o></o>
For me, the pointsare a bonus, an insurance policy, more or less, if they happen not to win thisgame...I think the Thunder can with this game outright and could possibly cover8 points themselves... So I am betting the moneyline, too, along with happily takingthe 8 points...<o></o>
GL...<o></o>
></o>Oklahoma City Thunder Pick(+305), laying $25 to win $76.25 -- This is the biggest game of the entire regular season in theNBA as you can see by the coverage on ESPN the last 24 hours... Nationallytelevised game on ABC...You can throw the trends out the window for the mostpart tonight... Sure, the Warriors demolished the Thunder twice at Golden State,winning 122-96 on November 3rd (OKC on the back-end of a back-to-back there,though) and winning 121-100 on January 18th... But this one is at OklahomaCity... The energy from the Thunder fans will figuratively blow the rook offthe Chesapeake Energy Arena...<o
></o>And Golden Stateis on the back-end of a back-to-back this time...And they had double-revenge ontheir minds last night and delivered some payback to the Grizzlies with a122-107 win at Memphis last night...Their starters played late into that gameand Draymond Green became the first player in NBA history to notch atriple-double despite scoring just 4 points, as he had 12 rebounds, 10 assistsand 10 steals to go along with 5 blocks...He played with a ton of energy lastnight and the Warriors as a whole showed a lot of energy and focus lastnight...<o
></o>I always look forthe motivational spots when handicapping the NBA or any sport...There isclearly one team here who has all of the motivation to win this game...TheThunder have a triple-revenge spot here as they lost to Golden State in theWestern Conference Finals last year and they have already lost to the Warriorstwice this season, getting throttled in both games...This Thunder team willwant to win one for their Home crowd in Kevin Durant's return to OklahomaCity...<o
></o>Durant had his twohighest-scoring games of the season vs. OKC with 39 in the first game and 40 inthe second meeting...But coming back to "boos" of his former homecrowd could potentially be a little unnerving in front of what will be a veryemotional crowd in his first game back...<o
></o>The Warriors are8-2 straight-up on the back-end of back-to-backs this season, but just 3-7 ATSin those same 10 spots...The Warriors have been dealing with inflated lines allseason long and tonight is no exception...<o
></o>For me, the pointsare a bonus, an insurance policy, more or less, if they happen not to win thisgame...I think the Thunder can with this game outright and could possibly cover8 points themselves... So I am betting the moneyline, too, along with happily takingthe 8 points...<o
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