{"id":20979,"date":"2012-01-11T15:46:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20979"},"modified":"2012-01-11T18:01:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T23:01:48","slug":"heat-vs-clippers-lebron-james-takes-on-chris-paul-inside-staples-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/heat-vs-clippers-lebron-james-takes-on-chris-paul-inside-staples-center-20979\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat vs. Clippers: LeBron James Takes on Chris Paul Inside Staples Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat at Los Angeles Clippers
\nWednesday, 1\/11\/12, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 202.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 203.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade returned to the floor last night and scored a season-high 34 points<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami certainly let one get away last night in dropping a 111-106 overtime affair to the Golden State Warriors as nine-point road favorites.\u00a0 \u201cWe got a couple good looks and they just didn\u2019t go through,\u201d stated Heat forward LeBron James.\u00a0 He finished the game with 26 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds.\u00a0 The Heat are 29-17 all-time versus the Los Angeles Clippers, including a 13-10 mark on the road.\u00a0 Miami is 11-3 ATS as a road favorite of 3.5 to 6 points over the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Heat are averaging 50.0 points in the paint this season, compared to just 35.4 points for their opponents.\u00a0 Miami is averaging a league-high 108.1 points per game and holding opponents to only 98.0 points.\u00a0 The team\u2019s +10.1 point differential is second-best in the NBA, as the team paces the league in shooting 49.8 percent from the field.\u00a0 Shooting guard Dwyane Wade was back on the court last night after missing three games with a foot injury, finishing up with a season-high 34 points.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles had its three-game win streak snapped by the Portland Trail Blazers last night, dropping a 105-97 decision as 5.5-point road underdogs.\u00a0 The Clippers will be completing their first back-to-back set of this unusual season, as they\u2019ve won eight of their last 10 games inside the Staples Center.\u00a0 Power forward Blake Griffin leads the team in scoring 23.7 points per game, as he joins Minnesota\u2019s Kevin Love as the only other player to be averaging 23-plus points and 10-plus rebounds.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 18-24 ATS when playing on back-to-back days the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Clippers have done a fantastic job in defending James in their meetings, limiting him to 23.1 points per game, which is his lowest scoring average versus any NBA team.\u00a0 Los Angeles point guard Chris Paul is a good friend of James off the court, but he has lost six of 11 meetings against him.\u00a0 He\u2019s averaged 16.2 points and 9.5 assists in those contests.\u00a0 The former New Orleans Hornets star has averaged 17.0 points and 10.7 assists in 11 career games versus the Heat.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Clippers due to their 16-7 ATS mark at home versus winning road teams, while the Heat are 1-4-1 ATS versus Western Conference foes.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat at Los Angeles Clippers Wednesday, 1\/11\/12, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 202.5 Current Total:\u00a0 203.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Miami certainly let one get away last night in dropping a 111-106 overtime affair to the Golden State Warriors as nine-point road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[749,837,2896,66,1371,707,3624],"class_list":["post-20979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-blake-griffin","tag-chris-paul","tag-dwyane-wade","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-miami-heat","tag-staples-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20979","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=20979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20982,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20979\/revisions\/20982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}