Clippers vs. Pistons Pick
Will Blake Griffin get the victory over his former team tonight at 7PM ET when the rolling Detroit Pistons host the Los Angeles Clippers?
Who Oddsmakers Like: Detroit. According to oddsmakers at YouWager, the Pistons are listed as a 3-point favorite on the spread line. The total is set at 218.5 points. Detroit opened as a 2.5-point fave, while the over-under has climbed from 215.5.
Who the Public Likes: Detroit. As of Friday afternoon, 79 percent of public bets have come in on the Pistons. Online wagers have also seen 58 percent of bets in favor of the over.
Who We Like: The Pistons won the first meeting this season by a score of 95-87 at Los Angeles in October. The Clippers are 5-4-1 ATS in the last 10 meetings, while the over has gone 6-3-1. Los Angeles enters having won two in a row and four of five. The Clippers are 5-5 ATS in the spread in their last 10 games and the under is 7-3. Detroit enters on a five-game winning streak, although it only covered the spread in two of those games. The Pistons are 2-8 ATS in their last 10 contests, while the over is 7-3.
Detroit has shown to have a strong home-court advantage with Griffin in the lineup and he’ll be heavily motivated for this one. It’s a short spread and hard to ignore how much better the Pistons look with him in the lineup. Detroit will technically be short-handed after making a couple trades yesterday, but Willie Reed was only seeing limited minutes and Brice Johnson had yet to appear in a game before being dealt yesterday. Both of those players had been acquired as additional pieces in the Griffin trade.
NBA DAILY PREDICTION: DETROIT PISTONS -3
