Los Angeles Clippers San Antonio Spurs Free Pick and Betting Odds. The 56-26 San Antonio Spurs play host to the 55-27 Los Angeles Clippers in game 3 of this 7 series at the AT & T Center, April 24, 2015. Tip-off time is scheduled for 9:30PM EST.
Wagering Odds
Point Spread: Spurs -4.5
O/U Total: 202.5
This series might be the most intense one happening right now in the NBA playoffs. The Spurs managed to hold off a real challenge from the Clippers in game 2 when they rallied for an overtime win of 111-107 to tie up the series heading home for game 3.
This series could easily be in the hands of the Clippers if they hadn’t made so many mistakes at the end of regulation time. Forward Blake Griffin lost the ball on a bad drive that gave the Spurs an opening that saw them outscore Los Angeles 19-13 for the rest of the OT. Griffin who is the Clippers playoff star grabbed 29 points in game 2 and 11 rebounds while dishing out 12 assists. All this was nullified by the biggest blunder in this series so far.
The Clippers have the talent to defeat the Spurs especially on the defensive side of the ball as they managed to hold San Antonio to just 36.6 shooting in game 1 and they need to bring that same intensity into San Antonio tonight to regain the home court advantage in this series.
Game 2 saw playoff veteran Tim Duncan gather 28 points, 11 rebounds for his 159th career playoff. This was a record setting night for Duncan joins the elite ranks of Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neil the only four other players in the NBA to hit 5000 playoff points. Spurs star Kawhi Leonard also had a big night scoring 23 points and grabbing 9 boards. Patti Mills who is in for an injured Tony Parker grabbed 18 points and hit 2 massive free throws with 8.6 to go that sent the game to overtime.
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Los Angeles San Antonio Betting Trends
The Clippers are 2-4 against the spread in their last 6 games
Los Angeles are 8-17 straight up in their last 25 games when playing San Antonio
The game total has gone over in 12 of the Clippers last 16 on the road at the Spurs.
San Antonio is 1-4 against the spread in their last 5 games
The game total has gone over in 12 of the Spurs last 16 games at home against the Clippers
The total has gone OVER in 8 of San Antonio’s last 11 games when playing LA Clippers
Injury Report
LOS ANGELES
Jordan Hamilton G Day-to-Day (head)
SAN ANTONIO
Tony Parker G Day-to-Day (Achilles)
Consensus Betting
Los Angeles: 39%
San Antonio: 61%
Free NBA Pick
The Clippers have lost two games in their last 17 with both coming by the margin of 4. In fact losing has not been a common event for Los Angeles since the beginning of March with a 19-6 record with 4 of the 6 losses being by 5 or fewer points. Of course a 5 point margin by the Spurs would get them the point spread cover tonight, but the point to be made was that they have the make-up to battle to the end in nearly every game. That’s a rare commodity in the NBA and that’s why we feel comfortable taking the points and backing a team that could win this game outright.
Take the Los Angeles Clippers +4.5
