The Oklahoma City Thunder (12-4) look to get their seventh win in eight games as the Utah Jazz (9-7) come to town for a fantastic Friday night game. The Jazz have won five of their last six, including two of their last three on the road, but will need a near-perfect game to keep this one close. AccuScore, unfortunately for Jazz fans, isn’t expecting anything close to “near-perfect” tonight from Utah.
After 10,000 simulations, the Thunder came out on top 87.9 percent of the time. The average score was 105.7-92.8. They also covered their -9 spread nearly 60 percent of the time. The Thunder also got a big win (10 points or more) nearly 59.8 percent of the time. Simply put, all the data points towards a [fairly easy] OKC victory.
The total for the game was set at 204 for the simulations and it went UNDER 59.3 percent of the time. In the last four meetings between the two teams, the total has gone UNDER all four times.
The Thunder are coming off a 120-98 victory over James Harden a...
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James Harden,
Kevin Durant,
Russell Westbrook,
Kevin Martin,
Serge Ibaka,
Al Jefferson,
Paul Millsap,
Gordon Hayward,
Derrick Favors,
Marvin Williams,
Maurice Williams
TEAMS: Utah Jazz, Houston Rockets, Oklahoma City Thunder, New Orleans Hornets
TEAMS: Utah Jazz, Houston Rockets, Oklahoma City Thunder, New Orleans Hornets
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