With no hope of making the postseason, the Lakers will try to maintain a little pride with a win over the struggling Bucks on Thursday, when the two face off at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, in Milwaukee. [ad-4468020]<\/p>\n
Date\/Time: 8PM ET, Thursday, March 27, 2014<\/strong> ATS Matchup Insight<\/a> | CappersPicks Insider Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Los Angeles (24-46) is riding a three-game win streak after pasting the Knicks, 127-96 on Tuesday in New York.<\/p>\n Los Angles’ reserves carried the load, as Xavier Henry scored 22 points off the bench, while LA set a franchise record with a 51-points in the third quarter.<\/p>\n Fellow reserves Nick Young poured in 20 points and Kent Bazemore finished with 18 for the Lakers, who were 18-of-28 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n It was a season- best for points scored, despite the absence of Lakers’ center Pau Gasol, who missed the contest. Ramon Sessions scored a season-high 28 points to go with seven assists, while Jeff Adrien and Zaza Pachulia added 14 points apiece.<\/p>\n The only good thing in this one, was that the Bucks were within four points with a little over three minutes remaining before slipping to a nine-point deficit less than a minute and a half later. Milwaukee was unable to make a late charge while dropping to 5-31 on the road.<\/p>\n Milwaukee was without the services of forward Ersan Ilyasova, who was rested in the second contest of a back-to-back set.<\/p>\n The Lakers are just 11-24 on the road, but the Bucks are even worse at home, posting a dismal 8-27 record.<\/p>\n While I am pretty sure that the Lakers win this one straight up, depending on the spread, I may take the Bucks and the points here if it’s more than 12.<\/p>\n Oddsmakers have set some pretty big spreads for Milwaukee over the past few games, and there seems to be some value as they have finished closer than predicted.<\/p>\n Lakers 104, Bucks 93<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LA vs Milwaukee NBA Odds Handicapping With no hope of making the postseason, the Lakers will try to maintain a little pride with a win over the struggling Bucks on Thursday, when the two face off at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":978,"featured_media":74584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[470,22774,38981,38979,38984,4318,66499],"class_list":["post-74484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-free-pick","tag-l-a-lakers","tag-l-a-lakers-vs-milwaukee-bucks","tag-l-a-vs-milwaukee","tag-lakers-vs-bucks","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74484","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\/978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74484"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74589,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74484\/revisions\/74589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Venue:BMO Harris Bradley Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin<\/strong>
\n Broadcast: FOX Local<\/strong>
\n Spread: OFF<\/strong>
\n Over\/Under: OFF<\/strong>
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\nMeanwhile, the Bucks (13-58) are the worst team in the NBA and added to their eight game skid with a 106-98 loss to the Clippers last time out.<\/p>\nMatt’s Prediction:<\/h3>\n