{"id":10950,"date":"2010-11-24T09:08:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T14:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10950"},"modified":"2010-11-24T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T14:08:24","slug":"miami-heat-vs-orlando-magic-pro-basketball-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/miami-heat-vs-orlando-magic-pro-basketball-picks-10950\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat vs Orlando Magic Pro Basketball Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat at Orlando Magic
\nWednesday, 11\/24\/2010, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Orlando Magic are aiming for revenge of an earlier 96-70 loss to the Miami Heat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami never dreamed that its record would be 8-6 after 14 games of the season heading into face one of its fiercest Eastern Conference rivals.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t think we anticipated anything like this.\u00a0 We\u2019re just going to have to deal with it,\u201d said Chris Bosh.\u00a0 \u201cWhen we cam into this situation we all knew it wasn\u2019t going to be an easy road, so we have to just embrace the fact that it\u2019s not easy.\u201d\u00a0 The Heat are coming off a 93-77 home loss to the Indiana Pacers and have been outrebounded 95-71 in consecutive losses.\u00a0 The team is 2-3 on the road this season after posting a 23-18 mark during the 2009-10 campaign.\u00a0 Miami did hand the Magic a demoralizing 96-70 defeat on October 29, while the two teams split last year\u2019s series at two games apiece.\u00a0 The squad is 5-9 ATS on the season and the NBA lines page is available for getting the best number.<\/p>\n

The Heat shot just 38.7 percent from the field in the Pacers\u2019 loss, including a 20.0 percent from the 3-point line and 65.8 percent shooting from the charity stripe.\u00a0 Miami also lost power forward Udonis Haslem indefinitely with a torn ligament in his left foot, an injury that leaves the team thin in the interior.\u00a0 \u201cWe took a blow with U.D. going down,\u201d said LeBron James.\u00a0 \u201cSomeone has to step up.\u201d\u00a0 One player that must bounce back is star guard Dwyane Wade, who tallied a 1-for-13 shooting night after missing the previous game with a strained left wrist.<\/p>\n

Orlando dropped a 106-97 road decision to the red-hot San Antonio Spurs on Monday and now will seek revenge from a previous blowout loss against tonight\u2019s opponent.\u00a0 \u201cThe Heat are the best defensive team we\u2019ve faced,\u201d said head coach Stan Van Gundy.\u00a0 \u201cIt will be another good test for us.\u00a0 We need to play well to play with them.\u201d\u00a0 Center Dwight Howard is still an improving star in this league and has led the team in scoring 10 times and rebounding 12 times in the Magic\u2019s first 13 games of the year.\u00a0 It seems that his offseason work with former Houston Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon is paying off.\u00a0 Orlando is 4-9 ATS on the year, including a 4-4 ATS mark at home.<\/p>\n

The Magic are 6-2 overall against conference opponents that includes a 3-1 mark at the new Amway Center.\u00a0 Orlando has to look no further than watching film of the third quarter in its last meeting against Miami, getting outscored 28-10.\u00a0 The team also shot just 30.4 percent from the floor and was 4-of-24 from beyond the arc, while recording a franchise-low five assists.\u00a0 The team has an average margin of victory of 20.5 points at home this season and will be playing for its 66th consecutive sellout crowd tonight.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Heat are 0-5 ATS versus the Eastern Conference, while the Magic are 0-7 ATS in the same situation.<\/p>\n

The NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports have a full lineup of games to shoot at on the hardcourt tonight.\u00a0 Join them today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat at Orlando Magic Wednesday, 11\/24\/2010, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Miami never dreamed that its record would be 8-6 after 14 games of the season heading into face one of its fiercest Eastern Conference rivals.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t think we anticipated anything like this.\u00a0 We\u2019re just going to have to deal with it,\u201d said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3648,692,833,2896,3622,66,707,659,3649],"class_list":["post-10950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-amway-center","tag-chris-bosh","tag-dwight-howard","tag-dwyane-wade","tag-eastern-conference","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-orlando-magic","tag-stan-van-gundy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10951,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950\/revisions\/10951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}