{"id":21589,"date":"2012-02-08T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21589"},"modified":"2012-02-08T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:56:12","slug":"heat-vs-magic-lebron-james-and-dwight-howard-meet-inside-the-amway-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/heat-vs-magic-lebron-james-and-dwight-howard-meet-inside-the-amway-center-21589\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat vs. Magic: LeBron James and Dwight Howard Meet Inside the Amway Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat at Orlando Magic
\nWednesday, 2\/8\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 SUN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 192
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 191
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard has struggled offensively against the Miami Heat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami is set to play the second game of a back-to-back situation Wednesday night in traveling to take on the Orlando Magic inside the Amway Center.\u00a0 The Heat have won three games in a row, including a convincing 107-91 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers as 13.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 \u201cThey have looked unbelievable,\u201d commented Orlando Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy.\u00a0 Heat star forward LeBron James has scored 30-plus points in 13 games this season, averaging 29.0 points and 8.3 rebounds per game.\u00a0 Miami is 11-4 ATS as a road favorite of 3.5 to 6 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Heat are 7-4 on the road this season, which includes a 5-1 mark when playing on the road.\u00a0 Miami split its four games with Orlando a year ago, but captured a 104-100 win as one-point road underdogs in its last game inside tonight\u2019s venue.\u00a0 A victory in this contest would give the franchise its best 26-game start in franchise history, pushing its record to 20-6 on the year.<\/p>\n

Orlando has seemingly come to life in winning three of its last four games, which directly followed a miserable four-game losing streak.\u00a0 The Magic are coming off a hard-fought 107-102 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Clippers as one-point home underdogs.\u00a0 \u201cOur guys played heard,\u201d stated Van Gundy after the game.\u00a0 Magic center Dwight Howard will be a key player to watch in the paint, averaging 24.4 points and 13.7 rebounds in his last seven games, but he\u2019s managed to eclipse the 19-point mark just once in his last eight meetings with the Heat.\u00a0 Orlando is 4-2 ATS as an underdog this year.<\/p>\n

The Magic are 8-5 at home this season, which includes a 6-3 record against Eastern Conference foes.\u00a0 Orlando has won 16 of its last 21 regular-season meetings in this series, which included 10 consecutive wins from April 9, 2006 to Jan. 2, 2009.\u00a0 Hitting shots from beyond the arc is a big part of this team\u2019s success, with the team coming in hitting 38.5 percent of its shots from beyond the arc, which ranks sixth in the NBA.\u00a0 Defensively, the team is allowing just 91.7 points per game, which ranks eighth in the league.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Magic due to their 6-1-1 ATS mark as a home underdog, while the Heat are 1-5 ATS as a road favorite.<\/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 Orlando Magic Wednesday, 2\/8\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 SUN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 192 Current Total:\u00a0 191 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Miami is set to play the second game of a back-to-back situation Wednesday night in traveling to take on the Orlando Magic inside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3648,833,3622,66,707,18,659],"class_list":["post-21589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-amway-center","tag-dwight-howard","tag-eastern-conference","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-orlando-magic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589","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=21589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21590,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589\/revisions\/21590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}