NBA Monday: Greg Frank picks Nuggets vs Hawks

0-1 Sunday, 63-62-1 overall.

Nuggets (-7.5) @ Hawks (223)

Pick: Hawks +7.5

Denver might end up hosting multiple rounds in the Western Conference playoffs and it looks like oddsmakers have figured them out. The Nuggets come into Monday at 24-11 and in second place in the conference standings. However, in those 35 games, they are 13-18-4 ATS. Their last 10 games show a similar pattern as the Nuggets are 7-3 straight-up but 2-6-2 ATS in those 10. On Saturday, Denver lost by 14 points as 13-point chalk in the nation’s capital against the Wizards. So the Nuggets will bounce back and clobber the Hawks tonight, right? Not so fast. Atlanta won the first meeting between these two teams in the Mile High City and now is catching 7.5 points tonight at home in a potential look-ahead spot for the Nuggets as Denver travels to Dallas to take on Luka Doncic and company next. Considering the Hawks 8-28 straight-up record, Denver probably can get away with a C effort tonight. That’s how we see this game playing out which would suggest taking the points would make sense.

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