{"id":21559,"date":"2012-02-07T12:07:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21559"},"modified":"2012-02-07T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:10:13","slug":"lebron-james-miami-heat-host-the-cleveland-cavaliers-in-south-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/lebron-james-miami-heat-host-the-cleveland-cavaliers-in-south-beach-21559\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James: Miami Heat Host the Cleveland Cavaliers in South Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Cavaliers at Miami Heat
\nTuesday, 2\/7\/12, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 SUN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -13
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -13.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 197.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 198.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Miami Heat are double-digit favorites in hosting the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cleveland will meet up with the Miami Heat for the second time during the 2011-12 season, looking to gain revenge in dropping a 92-85 contest as 13.5-point road underdogs on Jan. 24.\u00a0 The Cavaliers enter with a respectable 9-13 record when considering they won just 19 games a year ago, with rookie point guard Kyrie Irving getting the most attention.\u00a0 He is averaging a team-high 18.1 points, while also leading all rookies in scoring and field goal percentage.\u00a0 The team will be playing the first game of a back-to-back situation, heading home to host the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday.\u00a0 Cleveland is 8-5 ATS on the road and the \u201cunder\u201d is 7-6 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers have covered three of the last four in this series, which could continue due to leading the NBA in allowing just 9.3 fast break points per game.\u00a0 Cleveland also relies heavily on its bench, currently averaging 35.6 points from its reserves, which is the second-best mark in the Eastern Conference.\u00a0 Irving scored 17 points with four rebounds and four assists in playing 26 minutes in the first meeting against the Heat this season.<\/p>\n

Miami has won seven of its last eight games and has gone \u201cunder\u201d the total in two straight contests.\u00a0 The Heat have also alternated in covering the spread in five games, coming off a 95-89 win over the Toronto Raptors as 16-point home favorites.\u00a0 Forward LeBron James figures to be the center of attention tonight inside American Airlines Arena, hosting his former team.\u00a0 The former Cavaliers star ranks second in the league in scoring 29.2 points per game, which has been helped by shooting a career-best 55.2 percent from the floor.\u00a0 Miami is 1-5 ATS versus Central division opponents this year.<\/p>\n

The Heat have won four of five games against the Cavaliers since signing James as a free agent.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s not as big as if was last year of course,\u201d he stated in practice Monday.\u00a0 \u201cEach game it kind of goes away, but it\u2019s always fun going against your old teammates.\u201d \u00a0 Miami has tallied a 13-3 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents, including an 8-2 mark when playing at home.\u00a0 The Heat are 46-39 all-time versus the Cavaliers during the regular season, including a 30-13 mark when playing in South Beach.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Cavaliers due to their 5-1 ATS mark as underdogs of 11 points or more, while the Heat are 2-6 ATS as favorites in the same point range.<\/p>\n

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Cleveland Cavaliers at Miami Heat Tuesday, 2\/7\/12, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 SUN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -13 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -13.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 197.5 Current Total:\u00a0 198.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Cleveland will meet up with the Miami Heat for the second time during the 2011-12 season, looking to gain revenge in dropping a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[4128,65,3622,3945,66,707,18],"class_list":["post-21559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-american-airlines-arena","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-eastern-conference","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21559","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=21559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21567,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21559\/revisions\/21567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}