NUGGETS VS. CLIPPERS HEAD-TO-HEAD
2019-20 Regular Season
- Aug. 12, 2020: Los Angeles (-5.5) 124 vs. Denver 111, Over 230
- Feb. 28, 2020: Los Angeles (-7) 132 vs. Denver 103, Over 220.5
- Jan. 12, 2020: Denver (+1) 114 vs. Los Angeles 104, Under 221
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So far this season, the Clippers have been the superior team when these teams meet up, going 2-1 SU and ATS against Denver. The ‘over’ is also 2-1 in this matchup, with the only ‘under’ coming in the Denver victory in which Paul George did not participate in.
The only fair way to evaluate the upcoming matchup we have at hand is by diving into the games George and Leonard both played in, which Los Angeles won by a combined average of 21 points per game.
The Clippers and Nuggets play a similar style of basketball, but LA’s backcourt is just much better defensively and has exponentially more firepower on offense, led by PG13 who has averaged over 25 points per game in his two contests versus Denver.
Murray’s 10 days of fame was fun while it lasted, but I believe the writing is on the wall for Denver after seeing how routine thumping the Nuggets appeared to be for the Clippers in their previous meetings this year.
NUGGETS VS. CLIPPERS
HOW TO HANDICAP GAME 1
(SU-Straight Up, ATS – Against the Spread, OU – Over-Under)
DENVER BETTING OUTLOOK
Inside the Stats
- Bubble: 7-8 SU, 9-6 ATS, 13-2 O/U
- Playoffs: 4-3 SU, 5-2 ATS, 5-2 O/U
It appeared the Nugget’s season would be abruptly coming to a halt following their 129-127 Game 4 loss to the Jazz in first round of the Western Conference Playoffs.
However, Denver fans got to watch their young shooting guard blossom into a superstar before their very eyes as he averaged 40 points per game in the last four games of the series to bury Mitchell and the Jazz.Jamal having the best stretch of games in his young career was barely enough for the Nuggets to put away Utah in seven games, they will likely need that kind of production out of Jokic AND Murray to pull off the upset against the second-seeded Clippers in this bout.
LOS ANGELES BETTING OUTLOOK
- Bubble: 9-5 SU, 10-4 ATS, 9-5 O/U
- Playoffs: 4-2 SU, 4-2 ATS, 4-2 O/U
Los Angeles lucked out a little bit in its first round series in the Western Conference Playoffs as 50% of the Luka-Kristaps duo exited the bubble with a knee injury following the Maverick’s Game 3 loss to the Clippers, in which the Dallas Unicorn went for 34 points and 13 rebounds in his final contest in Orlando.Despite dropping two games to the seven-seed in the West, concern never swarmed the Clippers like it surrounded the Lakers, as any struggles River’s team had was either accredited to Doncic or solely blamed on the shooting woes of George.This series is supposed to be a tune-up for LA’s potential upcoming showdown with the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. Let’s see if Denver makes them sweat a little bit in this series, like Luka and company did in the previous round.
‘Over’ tickets have cashed in 13 of the Nuggets last 15 games, and they open a series with the Clippers on Thursday night that averaged 126+ points per game against the Mavericks in the first round, as Los Angeles is now beginning to ramp up the offensive intensity the deeper we go in these playoffs.
- ADVANCED PICK: CLIPPERS -9