NBA Expert Picks and Best Bets: Can Rockets get on track against Jazz? – CBSSports.com

Our CBSSports.com NBA Expert Picks for Monday, January 4, 2016 from Matt Moore, Ananth Pandian and James Herbert. First we’ll share our best bets, then below, we’ll measure ourselves against one another by picking three common games.

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BEST BETS

Herbert: Spurs (-10) over Bucks: San Antonio is 8-2 in its last 10 games ATS. Also, the Spurs are just really good at blowing teams out.

Moore: Celtics (-5.5) over Nets: The Nets are simply not a better team than Boston and even though they’ve won two over the Celtics now, the Nets have struggled too much to have faith they can do it in back to back games. It’s very difficult to beat a team in consecutive regular season games, and I expect the Celtics to respond to their recent lethargy.

Pandian: Thunder (+8) over Kings: While DeMarcus Cousins may beat the Thunder down low, OKC has enough depth and talent to get past the Kings. Plus with Kevin Durant sitting out, Russell Westbrook may shoulder more of an offensive burden and drop 40 or so points.

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