Sportsbook.com Hornets Spurs Game 7 Preview + Free Pick

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NBA: Game 7 for all the marbles

It’s a battle of youth versus experience as the New Orleans Hornets host the San Antonio Spurs in a deciding Game Seven.



New Orleans is a 4 ½-point favorite and 68% of Sportsbook.com bettors are backing them.

TNT will have the deciding game at 8:30 pm ET, with the Hornets 11-0 ATS in home games revenging a same season loss versus an opponent this year.

One thing New Orleans has learned in this series is that San Antonio is like Hillary Clinton, they never give up.

The home team has won every game in this series and is a perfect 6-0 against the spread, but the Spurs believe they have a great chance to win. San Antonio has the experience and benefit from the extra time between games and is 20-9 ATS with three or more days between games.

Hornets coach Byron Scott is old school, having played for the Lakers during the “Showtime” era and he is well familiar with titanic battles with teams like the Boston Celtics back in the 1980’s.

Scott is not to be taken lightly, his competitive juices are flowing, despite throwing out the niceties about San Antonio. “They’re (the Spurs) one of the greatest teams ever,” Scott said. “They’re our model. That’s who we want to be.”

Be certain, Scott has spent the last several days telling his team about being the one to end the Spurs dynasty, while creating one of their own in the Bayou. New Orleans comes into this series finale 10-1 ATS off a road loss of 10 points or more this season, winning by an average of almost 10 points per game.

In no series has the home court meant more. San Antonio has outscored the Hornets by almost 18 PPG at the AT&T Center, while being outscored by 19.3 PPG in New Orleans. The Spurs are only 6-15 ATS as a road underdog and even worse 3-11 ATS after allowing 80 points or less this season.

New Orleans understands what the home floor has meant not only to them, but in the postseason in general, with record of 22-2 (15-7-2 ATS) in the second round action.

"This is what you fight the whole regular season for," Hornets guard Morris Peterson said. "You want to have homecourt advantage when it counts the most." New Orleans is 11-3 ATS as a home favorite of 3.5 to 6 points in 2007-08 campaign.

Monday night will either write a new NBA chapter about a youthful upstart taking down the old guard or become what some believe, you can’t beat experience.
StatFox Power Line – New Orleans by 3