NBA betting tips: LA Clippers to silence the Utah Jazz in blowout fashion
NBA action continues this weekend with some favourable betting situations on deck.
Super Bowl Sunday may be upon us but there’s still one more night of thrills, spills and dunks on the hardcourt.
Sports News Blitz tipster George Dempsey offers his best tips ahead of the action.
Utah Jazz at Los Angeles Clippers
If the Utah Jazz can be described as hard bop for 48 minutes in regular time on Friday night, then it’s fair to say the melody died in overtime and they hit a bunch of bum notes.
Going toe-to-toe with the healthier, deeper and better-equipped Phoenix Suns, Utah minus Jordan Clarkson and Collin Sexton dropped 124 points in a pulsating tie.
Unfortunately, they forgot to keep scoring in overtime, as the Suns trounced them 13-5 for a final score of 135-127.
Four starters and two bench players scored double digits on the night, though even John Collins, who scored 21 points, was playing a different ball game to Devin Booker, who feasted on Utah’s defence with 47 points and 11 assists.
Playing back-to-back against Phoenix and the LA Clippers is a tough assignment made harder because the game went to overtime.
The starters logged 175 minutes on the floor and we know that when starters combine for 160+ minutes on the first night of a back-to-back, bad things tend to happen on night two.
Also, teams that played an overtime game the day before covered the spread just 41% of the time through 110 matches.
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It’s safe to say the Jazz are a tired, injured mess, but what about their opponents?
LA know a home meeting with Utah should be a win but Kawhi Leonard and Co are coming off of three straight defeats, which is the crucial motivating factor.
The Clippers haven’t lost four on the spin all season and this isn’t a scenario where you turn up, do the minimum and tick off a match against a losing team.
Defeats to the Toronto Raptors, LA Lakers and Indiana Pacers left a bad taste in their mouths, even though all three slip-ups were foreseeable to the betting public.
Games against the Lakers always provide a distraction but with 48 hours of rest behind them and a five-day break after this contest, the Clippers will be locked in.
We also want to exploit the relatively unique angle of a team playing a third home game in a row, hosting an away team on night two of a back-to-back.
In this scenario, the hosts covered the spread roughly 64% of the time since the start of the 2022/24 season.
Suggested bet: LA Clippers -13
