The 31-24 Utah Jazz will travel to face the 39-18 LA Clippers in an NBA pro basketball game on Saturday night. Tip off time from the Staples Center in Los Angeles is scheduled for 10:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by the NBA League Pass Channel.
The NBA odds from this game has the home team LA Clippers favored by -9 points with an over under line of 196 ½ points. There has been no line movement in this game since the odds came out a few hours ago.
The teams have met three times this season with the Clippers winning all three games. Utah covered the spread in two of the three games.
Utah travels with a road record of 10-18 on the year. The team extended their win streak to three straight following a 115-101 home win against the Golden St Warriors as a -3 ½ point betting favorite. The total landed over 203 ½ points. The Jazz shot 50% from the floor along with 10 of 21 from the three point line. Good thing Utah shot well as they allowed the Warriors 47% shooting and to pull down 7 more rebounds than the Jazz. Al Jefferson had 24 points and five rebounds on 11 of 18 shooting in the win. Offensively Utah is in the upper half of the NBA in all four critical categories. During their past six games the Jazz has averaged 104 points a game.
The Clippers are 21-6 straight up on their home court. They were the last team to play following the All Star break and get crushed 116-100 at home to the San Antonio Spurs as a -4 point betting favorite. The total landed over 200 points. The loss by the Clippers broke a four game win streak. LA came out flat falling behind 58-43 at the half. They shot just 42.1% from the field along with 5 of 16 coming from three. The Clips gave away 20 turnovers and allowed 58.9% shooting to the Spurs. Matt Barnes off the bench had 18 points and 6 rebounds on 6 of 12 shooting. Chris Paul had a bad game with just 4 points scored with three assists on 1 of 6 from the field. On defense the Clippers are a top five team in two key categories which are points allowed and defensive field goal percentage. LA allows 94.1 points a game and 43.9% shooting.
