Free NBA Picks & Basketball Predictions: December 12th 2009

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Free NBA Pick: Milwaukee Bucks -2 (Jim Feist)
The young Bucks struggle on the road, but are a strong 8-3 at home. Rookie Brandon Jennings scored 22 points before hyperextending his left knee near the close of the third quarter and the Milwaukee Bucks shot 52.5 percent to beat the Toronto Raptors 117-95 on Wednesday night. The Bucks had seven players with at least 12 points. The Bucks finished a stretch of 15 games in 26 days without consecutive days off, and Scott Skiles had already planned to give his team Thursday off before the win. Here’s another home game and it’s against a struggling and banged up Portland team a long way from home. The Blazers are playing their 3rd game in 4 nights here, plus the end of a 4-game road trip. A great spot for the rested home team. Play the Bucks.

Free NBA Pick: Utah Jazz +1 (Dave Price)
I expect LA’s winning streak to come to an end tonight. The Lakers just played last night and they weren’t able to get their starters as much rest as they would have liked against Minnesota as the starting 5 combined to play more than 160 minutes. Utah will be out for blood here after getting smoked in LA just days ago. Utah is 10-3 SU and 9-4 ATS at home this season. Plus, the Lakers have only played 4 road games thus far this season and are just 1-3 in those contests. The Lakers are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games playing on 0 days rest. The Jazz are 6-0 ATS in their last 6 home games and 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games as a home underdog of 4.5 points or less. Take Utah at home.