Sacramento Kings versus Dallas Mavericks Pick Prediction NBA Pro Basketball Odds Preview 1-10-2013

  • 11 years ago
The 13-23 Dallas Mavericks will be the road club as they battle the 13-22 Sacramento Kings in an NBA pro basketball game on Thursday night. Tip off time from Sacramento is scheduled for 10PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by the NBA League Pass Channel.

The betting odds from this NBA game has the home club Sacramento Kings favored by -2 points with an over under line of 206 ½ points. There has been no line movement in this game since the odds came out a few hours ago.

The teams met back on December 10th and it was Dallas with the 119-96 home win as a -6 point betting favorite. The game landed over 200 ½ points. Trend: Sacramento Kings are 8-1 to the over in their past nine games.

Dallas is 5-16 on the road this season. The Mavericks have lost four straight and nine of their past ten games as they drop a 99-93 road defeat last night to the LA Clippers as a +10 point under 201 ½ points. It came down to the fourth quarter in this game as the Mavs were holding a three point lead after three quarter and get outscored 27-18 in the final stanza in defeat. Dirk Nowitzki is trying to work himself back into shape and played 33 minutes and scored 15 points and grabbed six boards on 5 of 13 shooting. The Mavericks are the 28th ranked scoring defense in the NBA by giving up 103 points a game.

The Kings are 10-8 on their home court. They have lost two straight games. They get beat on Monday night to the Memphis Grizzlies 113-81 as a +4 point home underdog. The game went over 188 points. The second straight game the Kings allowed 113 points. They struggle on defense as Sacramento allows 102 points a game ranking 27th in the NBA in scoring defense. DeMarcus Cousins leads the team with 17 points and 10 rebounds with just 42% shooting from the floor. For a player of his size that shooting percentage should be higher.

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