Clippers Continue Road Trip With Visit to Atlanta
On Wednesday, the NBA schedule features an inter-conference game when the Western Conference Los Angeles Clippers visit the Eastern Conference Atlanta Hawks. The current line has Atlanta favored by 3 points with the over/under point total on 207.5
Los Angeles enters this game with an overall record of 29-16 straight up and 21-21 against the spread. On the road, the Clippers are 14-9 SU and 11-10 ATS.
Atlanta on the season has an overall record of 27-19 SU and 23-22 ATS. At home, the Hawks are 15-7 SU and 12-10 ATS.
Los Angeles was anxious to have Blake Griffin its All-Star power forward back from his quadriceps injury. However, following an alleged altercation with Matias Testi the team’s equipment manager, Griffin had surgery on Tuesday to fix a broken bone in his hand.
Griffin, who is reported to have sustained his injury at a restaurant in Toronto on Saturday night, could miss a minimum of four weeks. The Clippers went out on Tuesday night without Griffin and beat Indiana 91-89, to improve their record to 12-3 without him in the lineup.
Both Griffin and Testi returned to Los Angeles and Griffin has a procedure on his hand Tuesday afternoon.
Atlanta returns to play at home following a road trip of 2-2. They defeated Denver on Monday 119-105 as Paul Millsap their top scorer returned to action after missing the team’s loss to Phoenix on Saturday to attend the funeral of his grandfather.
J.J. Redick a guard for Los Angeles is leading the NBA in shooting from 3-point territory hitting nearly 49% of his shots. DeAndre Jordan the star center for the Clippers leads the league in field goal shooting at 71.4% and is second in rebounding averaging 13.5 per game.
Chris Paul has picked up the scoring slack in Griffin’s absence, while leading the team in assists.
Millsap is the Atlanta high scorer averaging 18.4 point per games and leads them in rebounds at 8.8 per game.
Atlanta is No. 2 in the league in points off turnovers with 19.9 per game, while third in scoring off steals averaging 9.6 per game.
Los Angeles is 0-6 in its past six visits to Atlanta.
The OVER has cashed in 11 of the past 12 games between the two teams played in Atlanta
Prediction: Los Angeles is on the road and had a tough game on Tuesday night. Back to back games on the road are the most difficult. I like Atlanta to win and cover this one.
