{"id":11926,"date":"2010-12-28T11:22:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T16:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11926"},"modified":"2010-12-28T11:22:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T16:22:42","slug":"free-nba-picks-new-york-knicks-at-miami-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/free-nba-picks-new-york-knicks-at-miami-heat-11926\/","title":{"rendered":"Free NBA Picks: New York Knicks at Miami Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks at Miami Heat
\nDecember 28th, 2010 at 7:30 PM EST
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 Miami -10.5
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 Miami -8.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 204.5
\nCurrent Total: 203
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 Miami -450 \/ New York +370
\nCurrent Moneyline: Miami -450 \/ New York +350<\/strong><\/p>\n

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LeBron James had a triple double last game against the Knicks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To say the Miami Heat have got things together after a rough start would be a bold understatement.\u00a0 After opening the season with a mediocre 9-8 record, they have reeled off 14 out of 15 games and now sit only 2 games behind Boston for the best record in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never had that arrogant part where we thought we were bigger than everybody else, but we were just very confident before we did anything. To have that humbling experience at the beginning of the season has helped us,” said Lebron James.\u00a0 James is averaging 34.5 points, 7.7 assists and 7.5 rebounds in 11 games versus the Knicks since the start of the 2007-08 season, and looks to have another big night tonight, but will face the tough defense of Wilson Chandler.\u00a0 Something about playing the Knicks seems to bring out the best in LeBron, though.<\/p>\n

New York Knicks fans have been pleasantly surprised by the Knickerbockers, as well, though, as they are 18-12 (.600) and are in competition with the likes of Orlando, Atlanta, and Chicago for competitive seedings in the Eastern Conference.\u00a0 They held the Bulls and Thunder to a horrid 41.5% in their past two games and will seek to continue that defense against the Heat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a beautiful job defensively,\u201d the Knicks\u2019 Amar\u2019e Stoudemire said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been talking about defense now for the past – actually the whole year – but more so the past week about communicating, helping the helper, so it\u2019s really showing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:\u00a0 New York has won 15 of their last 19 games and the total has gone UNDER In 4 of their past 6 on the road.\u00a0 They have won 8 of their last 9 road games, but have dropped their last 6 games to the Heat by an average of 14.5 points per game.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 6 of New York’s last 8 games against Miami.\u00a0 New York is 2-4 ATS in their last 6 in Miami.<\/p>\n

Miami is 10-3-1 ATS in their last 14 games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Miami’s last 5 games and they have won 6 of their past 7 at home.\u00a0 They are 3-10-1 ATS in their last 14 home games and they have won 7 of their past 10 at home against the Knicks.<\/p>\n

The key matchup for tonight’s game will be Wilson Chandler vs. Lebron James.\u00a0 As mentioned earlier, LeBron always seems to have his way with the Knicks, despite Chandler being a pretty good defender.\u00a0 LeBron will likely cover Galinari on the defensive end, as he is truly the Knicks small forward, but he just simply can’t cover someone like LeBron so the duty will go to Chandler.\u00a0 Look for LeBron to have another big game, if only because he loves tearing the heart out of Knicks’ fans.\u00a0 It is worth noting that the NBA Oddsmakers original pick of -10.5 has shifted since to -8.5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks at Miami Heat December 28th, 2010 at 7:30 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 Miami -10.5 Current Line:\u00a0 Miami -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 204.5 Current Total: 203 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 Miami -450 \/ New York +370 Current Moneyline: Miami -450 \/ New York +350 To say the Miami Heat have got things together after a rough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":9324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[707,115],"class_list":["post-11926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-miami-heat","tag-new-york-knicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926","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\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11928,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions\/11928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}