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NBA Betting odds: The Utah Jazz snapped a string of three straight losing seasons to win the Northwest Division and punch their ticket back into the postseason for the first time since 2012. The Los Angeles Clippers are back in the playoffs for the fifth straight season and fourth time under the watch of Doc Rivers. They’ll no doubt be out for blood in this series after getting bounced in the first round by Portland last season. Los Angeles won three of these teams four regular season meetings and won them by an average of 14 points per game.
Utah Jazz vs. Los Angeles Clippers
Dates: Saturday, April 15 – Sunday, April 30, 2017
Utah finished the year 20 games over .500 and sported winning records both at home ( 29-12 ) and on the road ( 22-19 ). Unfortunately, it cost those that bet on them a pretty penny in covering those games at a 36-42-4 clip. For the Jazz to be successful in this series, it’s going to have to find a way to live up to its No. 3 rebounding rate and keep both DeAndre Jordan and Blake Griffin contained. If it does that, it will have a chance. It won the battle of the boards in the lone game it took from the Clip Joint in the regular season. It either tied or lost it in the three defeats. Utah has dropped nine of its last 10 visits to the Staples Center, so if it can’t hold serve at home, it likely won’t have a shot at advancing.
Time is running out on the Clippers to actually do something in the postseason for its long suffering fans. This is a franchise that’s never won it all, and it’s lined as heavy underdogs to finally breakthrough this season with Bookmaker.eu offering them up at a +5521 return to win it all. For that to have a remote chance of occurring, china dolls CP3 and Griffin must stay healthy. Each incurred season-ending injuries in the playoffs last season, and because of it, were eliminated by the Trail Blazers in the first round in six games. It’s now or never for this team, and a Jazz team it handled with relative ease throughout the regular season should act as the springboard that at the very least gets them into the conference semifinals.
Game 1 Betting Preview – Saturday, April 15, 2017, 10:30 p.m. ET ( ESPN )
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