{"id":13710,"date":"2011-02-27T09:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T14:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13710"},"modified":"2011-02-27T09:54:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T14:54:43","slug":"the-heat-is-on-new-york-travels-to-south-beach-to-take-on-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/the-heat-is-on-new-york-travels-to-south-beach-to-take-on-miami-13710\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heat is On: New York Travels to South Beach to Take on Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks at Miami Heat
\nSunday, 2\/27\/11, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -8.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -8.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 215
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 215<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Miami Heat get their first look at the revamped New York Knicks on Sunday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York rolls into South Beach with its newly acquired star dealing with a right elbow injury that will not cause him to miss a highly anticipated match-up.\u00a0 \u201cHe should be fine,\u201d said coach Mike D\u2019Antoni of forward Carmelo Anthony\u2019s injury.\u00a0 \u201cHe didn\u2019t take a whole lot of shots, let\u2019s put it that way, but he ran through everything.\u201d\u00a0 The team needs him at full strength to continue improving its position in the Eastern Conference standings and improving a 29-27 record with 26 regular season games remaining.\u00a0 New York will also be looking to bounce back from a dismal 115-109 losing effort to Cleveland last time out, even though Anthony scored 27 points and power forward Amar\u2019e Stoudemire scored 31 of his own.\u00a0 The squad is 33-21 ATS on the season and currently a road underdog on the NBA lines page.<\/p>\n

The Knicks have garnered a 13-15 overall record on the road during the 2010-11 campaign, including a 7-8 mark against Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 New York trails the season series, 2-1, but won the most recent meeting 93-88 at Madison Square Garden on January 27.\u00a0 The team has lost four straight contests in Miami, last winning on March 12, 2008, which actually snapped a seven-game losing streak.\u00a0 Stoudemire is averaging 26 points and 9.7 rebounds while playing over 40 minutes a night in three games against tonight\u2019s opponent.<\/p>\n

Miami is well aware of the heated rivalry when playing New York and will look to capture the season series in the process.\u00a0 \u201cWe know the Heat-Knicks rivalry goes way beyond our years,\u201d said star LeBron James.\u00a0 \u201cIt basically started with the departure of the man upstairs, coming down here and leaving New York.\u201d\u00a0 The man upstairs is president Pat Riley.\u00a0 The Heat captured a 121-113 home victory over the Wizards in their last game, as guard Dwyane Wade scored 41 points on 18-for-27 shooting.\u00a0 Miami is 10-16 ATS at home and 28-29 ATS overall this season.<\/p>\n

The Heat have currently won seven-straight home games, which happens to be their longest streak of the season.\u00a0 Miami\u2019s trio of stars that includes James, Wade and Chris Bosh managed to score a combined 81 points against the Wizards, their 22nd game this season they scored at least 75 points together.\u00a0 Heading into tonight\u2019s contest versus New York, Miami has recorded nine wins this month.\u00a0 The franchise mark for wins in February is 13.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Heat due to their 6-1 ATS mark on Sunday, while the Knicks are 2-5 ATS in the last seven meetings.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on the biggest plays of the weekend and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports go to work for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks at Miami Heat Sunday, 2\/27\/11, 8:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -8.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 215 Current Total:\u00a0 215 New York rolls into South Beach with its newly acquired star dealing with a right elbow injury that will not cause him to miss a highly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[669,49,2896,66,707,115],"class_list":["post-13710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-amare-stoudemire","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-dwyane-wade","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-new-york-knicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710","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=13710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13712,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710\/revisions\/13712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}