This is a 10* on the OVER

Denver wasn’t the opponent the Lakers expected to face here. But the Nuggets “ruined” what could have been an all-LA Western Conference Finals by stunning the Clippers in Game 7 Tuesday, 104-89. That was a stunning result even for us, and we had the Nuggets plus the points. It marked the second consecutive series where Denver rallied back from a 3-1 deficit. In the entire history of the NBA Playoffs, no team before them had ever rallied back from multiple 3-1 series deficits in the same postseason. The Under was 5-0-2 in the Clippers-Nuggets series, marking a huge departure from Denver’s previous 15 games where the Over had gone 13-2. We like Game 1 of the WCF to revert back to Denver’s “old ways,” as this number is just too low. The prior three Lakers-Nuggets matchups, the last of which took place here in the bubble, all went Over. On August 10th, the Nuggets shot 58.4% while the Lakers shot 54.3% in a 124-121 LA victory. Denver shot 56.5 from behind the arc! Though they somehow held the Clippers under 100 points in three of the last four games, we feel that had more to do with poor shooting than Denver’s defense. The Lakers have shot better than 50% in six of their last eight games. In the playoffs, Lakers games have averaged 219.3 points/game. Denver games have averaged 215.1 and that number grows when factoring in the entire time spent in the bubble. Play on OVER

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