NBA Best Bets: OKC, Warriors-Nuggets & Clippers vs. Mavericks

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00:00As we get you ready for a weekend all-around sports, a really good Friday

00:05night slate in the Association as well. Just over a week remains in this NBA

00:10regular season. Most teams about five games remaining to end out the long

00:15grind that is an 82-game regular season. Pretty jam-packed slate, DRS, on this

00:21Friday, including a matchup of the two top teams in the Western Conference, the

00:26Oklahoma City Thunder, who have now won 11 consecutive games, covering in all 11

00:31victories, head to Houston to take on the Rockets. Houston, still three games clear

00:36of everybody else in the Western Conference for that two seed in the

00:41Western Conference postseason. Six and a half points spread in favor of the

00:45Thunder. Total stands at 228 and a half. Will OKC continue its win streak,

00:51getting to 12? Might the Rockets play, spoiler, improve something down the

00:56stretch of this regular season? Yeah, one of those measuring stick games that you

01:00take a look at for the Houston Rockets. No real moral victories as they want to

01:04stay in the number two seed, which means they want to win as many basketball

01:06games as they can, but at the same time OKC knows they get the best punch from

01:10everybody in the NBA. Why? Because they have the best record in the NBA and

01:14looking to win their first championship. If we take a look at some of the lines,

01:17opened up at six here at the FanBlue Sportsbook, now currently sitting at six

01:20and a half. Some other outlets as low as five and a half, so we're not exactly

01:23getting a pushover game that's saying it's going to be an easy victory for the

01:26Thunder. Anticipated starting lineups, SGA, Wallace, Dwart, Williams, and Holmgren

01:30for the OKC Thunder, and then for the Rockets, Van Vliet, Cleen, Thompson, Eason,

01:34and Shengun. For me, I usually like these step-up spots for the Rockets, but this

01:38late in the season, the only thing is, hey, we'll show you we can beat you. I just look at

01:42the most red-hot team, best team in the NBA. They're not laying down for anybody,

01:46particularly the number two overseas Rockets. Give me a double-digit Friday

01:51night victory on the road for OKC in H-Town.

01:55DRS, I think it's really difficult to go against Oklahoma City right now. Again,

02:0011 consecutive wins, a cover in all of those 11 victories, five times as a

02:06double-digit favorite here. They're only laying six and a half. The Rockets had

02:10that second-best record in the Western Conference, three-game advantage with

02:14only about five, six games remaining in this regular season. They should be the

02:18two-seeded, and yet it's a 35-to-1 price on Houston to win the Western

02:22Conference crown. Twelve, nine, and one against the spread this year for the

02:27Rockets as a dog, eight of those twelve an outright victory. Again, Houston hasn't

02:33been booked as an underdog all that often this year. It should prove the

02:36Rockets can hold their own water, and yet the odds-maker is not really expecting

02:41that. Golden State has been absolutely lights out. When the starting five looks

02:46like it did last night, that includes Jimmy Butler, Draymond Green, Steph Curry,

02:50Brandon Podjemski, and Moses Moody. But the second leg of a back-to-back, still

02:56in the same state, but last night they were in LA. Tonight they return to San

03:00Francisco. It's basically a pick-em price for the Warriors and the Nuggets. Minus

03:05116 on the money line for Golden State, over-under stands at 235. What do you see

03:10tonight by the bag? Yeah, it's interesting because we take a look at the line. Open

03:14up at minus one and a half as a favorite last night for the Golden State Warriors,

03:17and still sits at minus one at the FanDuel Sportsbook. Some other outlets

03:20still holding the one and a half, but also, before the show started, we were

03:23getting the Denver Nuggets as a one-point favorite at some outlets, which

03:26is no longer the case. You look at the total, 234 up to 235, and again, it's not

03:31a huge trap. It's not as if Golden State got on a plane and went to, you know,

03:33Madison Square Garden or Milwaukee or something like that. You're staying in

03:37the same state here, private jet up north. So, expected starting lineups,

03:40Curry, Podjemski, Moody, Butler, and Green. And also understand this, you're playing

03:44for seeding. So, on maybe a January night, maybe some of the Golden State Warriors

03:48would sit this one out, but not the case. And the Nuggets certainly need this game

03:51as well. I'm just gonna lean on, you know, Nuggets waiting on the Golden State

03:55Warriors, rested and ready in a pick-em game. I'll take the Nuggets tonight in

03:59that spot. D.R.S., this should be a victory for Golden State, or at least we

04:05should see a game at full strength between both sides. Of course, Denver

04:09losing in the double overtime thriller that Nikola Jokic had a 60-point triple

04:14double earlier in the week that nobody really played in the second leg of a

04:17back-to-back, but at altitude against San Antonio, even booked as a slight

04:21favorite, the Nuggets dropped that game. Denver right now, half game in front of

04:26the Lakers for the three spot. L.A. in the four, only a game in front of Golden

04:31State. The Warriors could catch the Lakers in host in opening round playoff

04:36series. How about the other L.A. team, that being the Clippers? L.A. in action

04:40tonight at home, taking on the Dallas Mavericks. Two play-in tourney teams at

04:45this moment, but a double-digit spread in favor of the Clippers. Will it be L.A. in

04:50overwhelming fashion tonight? It looks like it's probably going to be. Look at

04:54the opening line at eight-and-a-half. You see the graphic at nine-and-a-half.

04:56Currently on Fandle right now, it sits at ten. Other outlets as high as ten-and-a-half.

05:00Total up slightly to two twenty-five-and-a-half, but for me, you know, I just

05:03look at that starting lineup. Give me the big three. Harden, Powell, Leonard involved

05:06in that game. Double-digit victory for me for the Clippers at home in their nice

05:10little dome, intuit dome. The Clippers have been playing great balls of late.

05:15They've won eight of their last ten. They're only a half game out of getting

05:19through the play-in tournament and being in the playoffs right away.

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