NBA Betting Free Picks: Milwaukee @ Philadelphia
Added on Apr 09, 2010 by Jack Thurman in
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With the NBA betting regular season winding down, there’s a lot of games that sportsbooks are keeping off the board due to injury, questions about starter playing time, etc. This is one of the few attractive wagering opportunities for Friday night as the Milwaukee Bucks play the Sixers in Philadelphia.
Milwaukee Bucks at Philadelphia 76ers
April 9, 4:05 PM Pacific
We respect the Bucks resilience, and they’ve done an impressive job trying to keep up the intensity following the loss of Andrew Bogut to a season ending arm injury. Milwaukee has covered 7 straight going 5-2 SU, and with notoriously hard driving coach Scott Skiles calling the shots aren’t a team prone to halfhearted efforts. Bucks are 50-26 ATS on the year and 26-12 versus the pointspread on the road. Inexplicably, the Sixers beat the Bucks at home in late March and Milwaukee is 11-3 ATS when revenging a home loss.
Philadelphia, on the other hand, quit caring a long time ago. They’re among the worst home teams in the NBA with a 12-27 SU/11-27-1 ATS record. They’ve won only 4 of their L20 games straight up and have covered only 6 of their last 20. At this point in the season, much of the handicapping process is figuring out which teams will exert a competitive effort and which teams won’t. In this matchup that’s very obvious and we’ll bet accordingly.
Bet Milwaukee -4 over Philadelphia
