Oklahoma City Thunder versus Dallas Mavericks NBA Pro Basketball Sports Betting Odds Pick Preview

Published on April 3, 2010 by admin · No Comments

The Oklahoma City Thunder will travel to face the Dallas Mavericks in an NBA pro basketball game on Saturday night. Tip off time from Dallas is scheduled for 8:35PM Eastern Time and you can watch it on the NBA package.

The LVSC NBA odds makers have set the opening line in this game and it was the Dallas Mavericks opening up as a 4 ½ point betting favorite with the over under coming in at 199.

The bettors have come in early on the side of the underdog, as the Oklahoma City Thunder is currently a 3-point favorite. The total has seen the early movement towards the under, as the game is lined at 195 ½ for the bettors to play into.

Money line gamblers on the side of the favored Dallas Mavericks will lay –180 odds with the underdog Oklahoma City Thunder bringing back +160 to pull off the upset victory without the need for taking the points.

This will be the fourth meeting between these Western conference foes. It was Dallas with the 100-86 victory as 2-point road underdogs back on December 16th. The Mavericks had a good shooting performance with 49.3% from the field. They then met on January 15th in Dallas and it was the Mavericks with the 99-98 victory as 1 point betting favorites. Dallas put on a pretty good defensive performance limiting the Thunder to just 42% shooting. In their last meeting back on February 16th it was the Oklahoma City Thunder with the 99-86 victory as 4 ½ point favorites. Dallas was miserable in defeat hitting on just 32.3% from the field.

The Dallas Mavericks sits with a 50-26 overall record and are tied for the second seed with the Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference with only 6 games remaining on their regular season schedule. Dallas had their 3 game winning streak snapped last Thursday as the Orlando Magic clobbered them in Dallas 97-82 with the Magic as 3 point road favorites. Dallas had problems shooting the ball as they were playing the back end of a back to back against a rested Magic team. Dallas could only make 38.3% of their shots and 4 of 14 from three in defeat. Dirk Nowitzki led the Mavericks with 24 points in defeat.

Oklahoma City sits with a 46-28 overall record and is sitting in the 6th spot in the Western conference and 1 game ahead of the San Antonio Spurs in the loss column with just 8 games remaining. Oklahoma City are winners of 4 of their past 5 games and two straight during this road trip. The team will complete their three game road trip tonight and enters this contest off a 109-104 win at Boston on Wednesday. The Thunder hit on 50.7% of their shots but was fortunate to win as they allowed the Celtics 59.3% shooting from the field. Kevin Durant had a monster game with 37 points and a perfect 15 of 15 from the line in the teams’ victory. Durant has averaged over 28 points over his past 5 games. Durant has not performed well against the Mavericks with just 29.7% shooting in those 3 games this season.

Trend: Oklahoma City Thunder are 5-1 ATS in their past 6 meetings

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