Golden State Warriors vs. Los Angeles Lakers odds, tips and betting trends | October 18
The Golden State Warriors play the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 7:00 PM ET in the season opener for both teams.
The Warriors enter their matchup against the Lakers as a 6.5-point favorite. The matchup features a point total of 225.
Warriors vs. Lakers Betting Odds
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- Spread: Golden State -6.5
- Total: 225
- Moneyline: Golden State -251, Los Angeles +205
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Lakers at Warriors odds, spread, & more
Prediction
- Pick ATS: Warriors (- 6.5)
- Pick OU: Under (225)
- Prediction:
Warriors 119 - Lakers 103
Moneyline
- Golden State was favored on the moneyline 62 total times last season. It finished 44-18 in those games.
- Golden State had a record of 27-7 in games it played as a moneyline favorite with odds of -251 or shorter last year (79.4%).
- Golden State has an implied moneyline win probability of 71.5% in this contest.
- Last season, Los Angeles won 10 out of the 39 games, or 25.6%, in which it was the underdog.
- Los Angeles had a record of 1-14, a 6.7% win rate, when it was set as the underdog by +205 or more by oddsmakers last season.
- The implied probability of a win by Los Angeles, based on the moneyline, is 32.8%.
Against the spread
- Last year, the Warriors put up 111.0 points per game, just 4.1 fewer points than the 115.1 the Lakers gave up.
- Golden State went 26-5-1 against the spread and 28-4 overall last season when scoring more than 115.1 points.
- Los Angeles had a 17-14 record against the spread and an 18-13 record overall last season when giving up fewer than 111.0 points.
- The Lakers averaged 6.6 more points per game last year (112.1) than the Warriors allowed (105.5).
- Los Angeles put together a 32-27 ATS record and a 30-29 overall record last season in games it scored more than 105.5 points.
- Golden State went 35-21-3 against the spread and 45-14 overall last season when it allowed fewer than 112.1 points.
- Last season, the Warriors were the league's 15th-ranked scoring team (111.0 PPG), while the Lakers were the 27th-ranked defense in terms of points per game (115.1) in NBA action.
- The 11th-ranked scoring NBA team was Los Angeles a season ago (112.1 PPG), while the Golden State squad was the third-ranked defense (105.5 PPG) in the league.
- The Warriors totaled 454 more points than their opponents last season (5.5 per game on average), while the Lakers were out-scored by 250 total points (3.0 per game average differential).
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Over/Under
- The average implied total for Golden State last season was 113.7 points, 2.3 fewer points than its implied total of 116 points in Tuesday's game.
- Last season, Golden State outscored its implied point total for this matchup (116) 32 times.
- The 114.8-point average implied total last season for Los Angeles is 5.8 more points than the team's 109-point implied total in this matchup.
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How to watch Warriors vs. Lakers
- Game Day: Tuesday, October 18, 2022
- Game Time: 7:00 PM ET
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Arena: Chase Center
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