New York Knicks versus Denver Nuggets Pick Prediction NBA Pro Basketball Odds Preview 12-9-2012

The 10-10 Denver Nuggets are the road team as they face the New York Knicks in an NBA pro basketball game on Sunday night. Tip off time from Madison Square Garden in New York City is set for 7:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by NBA TV.

The current NBA odds from this pro basketball game has the home team New York Knicks favored by -2 ½ points with an over under line of 188 ½ points. There has been no line movement since the odds opened up in this game a few hours ago.

The Nuggets and Knicks met once in the lockout shortened season a year ago. The Nuggets pull out the 119-114 road win against the Knicks as a -2 point favorite. Trend: The over is 3-0 in their past three head to head meetings.

Denver opened this road trip with a 108-104 loss at Atlanta on Wednesday. They come off the 92-89 road win on Friday night to the Indiana Pacers as a +2 point underdog. The Nuggets are 5-9 on the road this season. Denver has not been good defensively in recent games on the road. They have lost four of their past five road games and in the losses has given up 110 points a game. Danilo Gallinari leads the team with 15 points per game but makes just 37 ½% of his shots from the floor.

Last night the Knicks dropped a 93-85 decision to the Chicago Bulls last night as a -2 ½ point favorite. New York was a rested team having last played on Thursday in a 112-92 road victory at Miami. The Bulls were in a bad spot playing the back end of a back to back and their third game in four nights. The loss snapped a six game New York Knicks win streak. Carmello Anthony has missed the teams past two games with an injured finger and is questionable for Sunday.Without Carmello in the lineup last night the Knicks scored just 85 points and shot 32% from the field.