{"id":21791,"date":"2012-02-23T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=21791"},"modified":"2012-02-23T10:21:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T15:21:11","slug":"knicks-vs-heat-jeremy-lin-and-lebron-james-face-off-in-south-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/knicks-vs-heat-jeremy-lin-and-lebron-james-face-off-in-south-beach-21791\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks vs. Heat: Jeremy Lin and LeBron James Face Off in South Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks at Miami Heat
\nThursday, 2\/23\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -10
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -9
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 199.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 199.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Miami Heat welcome in the New York Knicks Thursday night before the NBA All-Star break<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York has alternated wins and losses over its last five games, coming off a convincing 99-82 win over the Atlanta Hawks as seven-point home favorites on Wednesday night.\u00a0 The Knicks will head out on the road for the first time since Feb. 14.\u00a0 Point guard Jeremy Lin continues to be the biggest NBA storyline, averaging 23.9 points and 9.2 assists over the last 11 games.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019ll be fun,\u201d commented Knicks star forward Carmelo Anthony about the atmosphere for this contest due to Lin\u2019s emergence.\u00a0 New York is 7-6 ATS as an underdog this season.<\/p>\n

The Knicks have compiled a 7-8 overall record on the road this season, including a winning 5-3 mark versus the Eastern Conference.\u00a0 New York will be traveling to South Beach for the second time this year, dropping a 99-89 contest in the first meeting this year as 12-point road underdogs.\u00a0 Anthony will need to play a big part in this game offensively, as he\u2019ll be playing his third game since coming back from various injuries, scoring 26 combined points in the first two contests.<\/p>\n

Miami has won seven consecutive games by a double-digit margin and comes off an impressive 120-108 win over the Sacramento Kings as 13.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Heat have covered six of those seven games and the \u201cunder\u201d is 3-1 over the last four contests.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re playing a great team and it\u2019s going to be a good evaluation of where we\u2019re at,\u201d stated Lin about matching up with the Heat.\u00a0 Miami is 1-4 ATS as a home favorite of 9.5 to 12 points and the \u201cunder\u201d is 4-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Heat have tallied a 13-2 record since last facing the Knicks last month, with shooting guard Dwyane Wade managing to score 24.1 points per game over that span.\u00a0 He is second on the team in scoring, as star forward LeBron James leads the way in averaging 27.6 points per game.\u00a0 Miami is averaging 103.8 points per game offensively, while holding opponents to just 94.6 points a game.\u00a0 Surprisingly enough, the Knicks come in with the better defense statistically, surrendering 93.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Knicks due to their 4-0 ATS mark in the last four meetings, while the favorite is 0-4 ATS in the same span of games.<\/p>\n

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New York Knicks at Miami Heat Thursday, 2\/23\/12, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -10 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -9 Opening Total:\u00a0 199.5 Current Total:\u00a0 199.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New York has alternated wins and losses over its last five games, coming off a convincing 99-82 win over the Atlanta Hawks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[49,2896,6440,66,707,18,115],"class_list":["post-21791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-dwyane-wade","tag-jeremy-lin","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791","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=21791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21792,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791\/revisions\/21792"}],"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=21791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}