Can The Clippers Hold On to The 4th Seed in The West?

The Jazz vs Clippers Odds Continue to Move in Los Angeles' Favor

The Utah Jazz will play the Los Angeles Clippers in their second-to-last game of the season. After a disappointing year with many NBA injuries, the Jazz won’t play in the postseason this year. Meanwhile, the Clippers will be! The Clippers have already won 51 games and will play two more games to try and hold on to their fourth-place seeding in the Western Conference.

Los Angeles has already ruled Kawhi Leonard out for this game. Meanwhile, James Harden is questionable with a foot injury. The Clippers want to get healthy for the playoffs so Harden may miss this game. That said, the Clippers have still won four of their last five games and are already 2-1 against the Jazz this season.

Los Angeles defeated the Clippers 131-102 just last week. A result like that is expected again tonight.

The Clippers are -15.5 (-105) after opening as 13.5-point favorites. Meanwhile, the total has also jumped two points from 222.5 to 224.5 (-105).

Take a look at the Jazz vs Clippers odds for tonight’s Western Conference tilt.

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Records: Utah Jazz (30-50), Los Angeles Clippers (51-29)
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Jazz vs Clippers Odds & Trends

The Jazz have gone 40-40 against the spread this season. At -110 against the spread for each game, Utah wasn’t profitable. However, the Jazz have been profitable with the Over this year. Utah’s games have hit the Over in 44 of the 70 games this year.

Still on the road, the Jazz are just 9-30 this season. They’ll be on the road against the Clippers tonight.

On the other hand, the Clippers have gone just 38-42 against the spread this season. Utah has actually done better than Los Angeles this year against the spread. In addition, the Clippers have hit the Under in four more games than the Under this season.

The Clippers should have no problems winning tonight’s game. They’re 25-14 at home this season. However, winning against the spread won’t be as easy as 15.5-point favorites.

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Utah’s Plans For Next Season

The Utah Jazz pretty much tanked the second half of the season away and will finish with about 30 wins on the season.

Before defeating the Rockets, the Jazz had lost 11 straight games and fell 26 games away from the top spot in the Western Conference.

The Jazz likely won’t get the first overall pick. But the second-half tank job will at least put them in a position to add a premier player in this year’s upcoming NBA Draft.

The Jazz will have to rebuild next year’s roster, and they’ll start discussing it by Sunday night’s end.

Russell Westbrook Is The League’s Best Bench Player

The Clippers built a Big 4 of Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, James Harden, and Russell Westbrook. Many NBA experts and analysts believed the Clippers would struggle with having these four All-Stars on the team together.

But when things started to click earlier in the year, the Clippers proved all of the doubters wrong.

Russell Westbrook decided it’d be best to come off the bench for the Clippers. This season, he’s averaged 11.2 points, 5.1 rebounds, and 4.6 assists per game. He’s provided a spark off the bench and has unmatched energy.

His sacrifice is what had led to Los Angeles’ success. The media always acknowledged that Westbrook ruins team chemistry. But with the Clippers, that just wasn’t true. He wanted to do whatever would best help the team win. While he won’t win the Defensive Player of the Year NBA, Westbrook isn’t washed up yet at 35 years old.

Paul George told the media that the team owed it to Westbrook to make it all work out. Now, the Clippers are in a position to at least make it through the first round of the NBA Playoffs with some solid NBA game scores over the last month.

Don’t Expect The Clippers To Cover

The Clippers should defeat the Jazz tonight per the Jazz vs Clippers odds. They’re 15.5-point favorites with a moneyline of -1600. However, while the Clippers have 51 wins this year, Los Angeles has lost more games against the spread than won this season.

Los Angeles has only had two games over the last six games where they scored more than 109.1 points per 100 possessions. Los Angeles isn’t getting the best shots and has turned the ball over at least 16.1% of the time in four of their last six games as well.

The Clippers also aren’t very strong on the offensive glass, earning no more than 26.8% of offensive rebounds in seven straight games.

On the other hand, the Clippers’ defense has helped them win most games over the last couple of weeks. Opponents have struggled from the floor and are also not adding many offensive rebounds against the Clippers.

Still, the Clippers don’t add a high amount of turnovers and typically foul at a very high rate, sending teams to the foul line consistently.

Although the Jazz have been way worse offensively, Utah’s coming off its best offensive performance in a month. The Jazz scored 124 points against the Rockets after adding 47.7% of offensive rebounds in that game.

The Jazz also shot an effective. field goal percentage of 58.6% and got to the foul line very consistently. Although Utah will allow plenty of scoring on the defensive end, the Jazz have held teams to a 6.7 free throw rate of fewer in two of the last three games. The Clippers will hang on, but the Jazz won’t lose by 16+ points if they’re adding a bunch of offensive rebounds and foul shots.

This should be a high-scoring game. Therefore, if you’re considering NBA prop bets today, consider Overs for many players in this game.

Jazz vs Clippers Betting Lines

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