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Philadelphia at Denver<\/strong> The 76ers started the season with a couple of impressive victories but quickly returned to form to go 9-21 straight-up through their first 30 games. While they are coming off a 111-104 win over the Lakers as seven-point road favorites this past Sunday, the Sixers have not won consecutive games since the first week of the season. Denver is hovering right around the .500 mark at 14-16 SU, but riding a seven-game losing streak into Wednesday night\u2019s contest.<\/p>\n The Nuggets are averaging 99.8 points a game, but they have now failed to eclipse that mark in nine of their last 10 outings. If there ever was a time to end this scoring drought it will be against Philadelphia.<\/p>\n It is a tough call to know which team wins this game against the spread, but this matchup presents a golden opportunity to take the OVER even with such a high total line.<\/p>\n BUZZER BEATERS<\/strong><\/p>\n NBA Picks Wednesday – Jan. 1 The NBA kicks off the New Year with five matchups on Wednesday\u2019s slate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":68034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4166,60923,359,5958,470,10854,5467,986,5074,60924,60925],"class_list":["post-71246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-76ers","tag-76ers-vs-nuggets","tag-denver","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-free-pick","tag-nba-prediction","tag-nuggets","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-76ers-vs-denver-nuggets","tag-philadelphia-vs-denver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71267,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71246\/revisions\/71267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n When: 9:00 PM ET, Wednesday, January 1, 2014<\/strong>
\n Where: Pepsi Center, Denver, Colorado<\/strong>
\n Pointspread: Denver -9<\/strong>
\nTotal Line: 212.5<\/strong>
\nATS Matchup Stats<\/a> | NBA Gambling Insight!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nThe main reason is the fact that Philadelphia is ranked dead-last in the league in defense; allowing an average of 111.5 points a game.<\/p>\n\n