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(21-9) Denver Nuggets vs. Los Angeles Clippers (18-13)
Date: Saturday December 22
Time: 5:00PM EST
Venue: Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA.
NBA Moneyline Odds: OFF
NBA Betting Odds: Clippers -2
NBA Betting Total: 215
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Denver Nuggets
After losing back-to-back road games against the Hornets and Hawks to close out a five-game trip, the Nuggets have won four in a row and are alone on top in the Western Conference standings.
Denver has been off since Tuesday, when it won by eight points against the Mavericks at the Pepsi Center. Nikola Jokic has thirty-two points, sixteen rebounds and four assists in the win. Jamal Murray had twenty-two and was the go-to guy in the fourth quarter and a trio of Nuggets had at least a dozen off the bench.
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Mike Malone has done a tremendous job holding this thing together without the services of several key guys. Gary Harris hasn’t played in any of the last six games and eight of the last ten with a hip problem. He’s still listed as day-to-day, however.
Then there’s Paul Millsap, who broke a toe on December 7 and is still going to be out for a while. Will Barton, a Sixth Man of the Year candidate, hasn’t played since the very start of the season, when he hurt his hip. He’s not ready to return yet but is being re-evaluated on a week-to-week basis. My guess is he’ll return sometime in January.
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That’s a lot of firepower to be missing. Plus, the team’s first round pick, Michael Porter Jr., hasn’t played yet, nor has Isaiah Thomas. Porter may not play this season but the first four guys I mentioned will come back and each one will provide a jolt to the team when he does.
Los Angeles Clippers
The Clippers finally snapped a four-game losing streak on Thursday with a four-point win over Dallas. Luka Doncic scored thirty-two for the Mavs but Danilo Gallinari matched him with a season-high of his own and Lou Williams returned to action to score twenty-four off the bench.
The return for Williams was a little sooner than I expected. He’s so crucial to his team’s success because of the offense the Clippers lack without him. He probably felt like he had to give it a go. He was the man in the fourth quarter of a close game.
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Los Angeles hasn’t turned the corner quite yet, necessarily. The Clippers have still lost six of eight and seven of ten.
Doc Rivers plays twelve guys at least ten minutes per game but there’s a thirteenth guy putting his best foot forward for more playing time.
Ty Wallace, the 24-year-old from Bakersfield, CA., played eleven minutes and scored six pitons against the Mavs the night after getting eight in about seventeen minutes. He played twenty-four minutes and scored fifteen against the Raptors earlier in the month, too.
Wallace isn’t a three-point shooter but he’s a slasher and does a little bit of everything on the other end, too. Most importantly, he goes hard and Rivers has had no choice but to play him.
NBA Betting Trends:
- DEN are 7-3 ATS in their last 10 Sat. games.
- Under is 9-4-1 in DEN last 14 road games.
- Over is 7-2 in LAC last 9 home games.
- LAC are 2-6 ATS in their last 8 games overall.
- Over is 14-6 in LAC last 20 overall.
- Head to Head: Under is 20-6 in the last 26 meetings in LA.
- Head to Head: Under is 36-16 in the last 52 meetings.
Free Denver Nuggets vs. Los Angeles Clippers NBA Prediction: LA makes it two in a row.
I think Thursday’s game got the Clippers some of their swagger back.
4* Free NBA Betting Pick: Clippers -2
NBA Free Score Prediction: Denver 106 – Clippers 112
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