{"id":22531,"date":"2012-03-29T09:36:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=22531"},"modified":"2012-03-29T09:36:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T14:36:02","slug":"mavericks-vs-heat-nba-betting-preview-from-americanairlines-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/mavericks-vs-heat-nba-betting-preview-from-americanairlines-arena-22531\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks vs. Heat: NBA Betting Preview from AmericanAirlines Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks at Miami Heat
\nThursday, 3\/29\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -8.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 189
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 188.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Heat<\/a>
The Miami Heat return home after dropping two of three games on a recent road trip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dallas enters tonight\u2019s 2011 NBA finals rematch on a two-game win streak that includes a 90-81 win over the Houston Rockets as seven-point home favorites on Tuesday night.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Mavericks will be looking to gain revenge from dropping a 105-94 decision as 4.5-point home underdogs to the Miami Heat in their season opener on Christmas Day.\u00a0 \u201cA bad taste in our mouth,\u201d commented Mavericks guard Jason Terry about that result.\u00a0 The franchise has still managed to win 14 of the last 15 regular-season meetings in the series.\u00a0 Dallas is 10-5 ATS as an underdog this year and the \u201cunder\u201d is 8-7 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are still led by the offensive play of All-Star forward Dirk Nowitzki, who scored 21 points versus the Rockets and leads the team in averaging 21.0 points per game.\u00a0 Dallas has registered a dismal 10-14 record on the road this season, but is 3-2 in that situation against Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 There\u2019s no question that head coach Rick Carlisle is going to mention the previous meeting between these two NBA heavyweights before taking the floor tonight.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to think back to Christmas Day because that was a miserable experience for us,\u201d Carlisle stated earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Miami returns home after dropping the last two games on a three-game road trip, including a 105-90 loss to the Indiana Pacers as 3.5-point favorites last time out.\u00a0 The Heat have gone \u201cunder\u201d the total in five of their last six games, as the offense has sputtered.\u00a0 Since March 2, the team ranks 25th in the league in averaging just 93.1 points per game, which is far off from its 103.8 points it averaged before that point in time during the 2011-12 campaign.\u00a0 Miami is 4-1 ATS as a home favorite of 6.5 to 9 points this year.<\/p>\n

The Heat will still have revenge on their minds from losing in the finals last year to the Mavericks despite winning the first meeting this year.\u00a0 Miami is 20-2 overall when playing at the AmericanAirlines Arena this year, including a spotless 5-0 mark versus Western Conference teams.\u00a0 Star forward LeBron James will be playing with a minor injury to his non-shooting hand, as he dislocated the ring finger on his left against the Pacers.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Mavericks due to their 13-3-1 ATS mark in Miami, while the Heat are 3-7 ATS in their last 10 games overall.<\/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":"

Dallas Mavericks at Miami Heat Thursday, 3\/29\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -8.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 189 Current Total:\u00a0 188.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Dallas enters tonight\u2019s 2011 NBA finals rematch on a two-game win streak that includes a 90-81 win over the Houston Rockets as seven-point […]<\/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":[6360,19,20,3622,66,707,18,3693],"class_list":["post-22531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-americanairlines-arena","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-eastern-conference","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531","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=22531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22532,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531\/revisions\/22532"}],"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=22531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}