{"id":26756,"date":"2012-12-20T12:53:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T17:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26756"},"modified":"2012-12-20T12:53:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T17:53:54","slug":"miami-heat-vs-dallas-mavericks-nba-betting-odds-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/miami-heat-vs-dallas-mavericks-nba-betting-odds-and-predictions-26756\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat vs. Dallas Mavericks: NBA Betting Odds and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat at Dallas Mavericks
\nThursday, 12\/20\/12, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 203
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 201.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Heat<\/a>
LeBron James has put up some great regular-season numbers against the Dallas Mavericks recently<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami has won and covered the spread in four of its last five games, including a 103-92 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves as 8.5-point home favorites Tuesday night, while going UNDER the total for a fourth consecutive time.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re getting better every night,\u201d commented Heat forward LeBron James.\u00a0 He has scored at least 20 points in the first 22 games this season\u2014a streak that should continue due to averaging 30.4 points in his last seven regular-season games against the Mavericks.\u00a0 Miami is 4-2 ATS after playing three consecutive home games this season, with the UNDER going 5-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Heat are just 4-4 on the road this season, including a 3-2 mark versus Western Conference opponents, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your pro basketball picks tonight.\u00a0 Miami should have no problem scoring the basketball in this matchup, considering Dallas has held just one opponent to under 90 points this season.\u00a0 The franchise has also compiled an impressive 24-4 record in its last 28 games in the month of December.<\/p>\n

Dallas snapped its three-game losing streak by earning a 107-100 win over the Philadelphia 76ers as six-point home favorites, while going OVER the total for the fifth time in six contests.\u00a0 The Mavericks continue to be led by guard O.J. Mayo and center Chris Kaman, as they scored 26 and 20 points respectively on Tuesday.\u00a0 The team is 8-3 at home this season, including a perfect 6-0 mark versus Eastern Conference foes, which could make it a dangerous home underdog when looking over the pro basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks have taken 17 of the last 20 regular-season meetings between these two teams, but they\u2019ll be playing without Dirk Nowitzki, who continues to rehab a knee injury.\u00a0 \u00a0 Dallas has gone 20-1 in its last 21 games when shooting 50-plus percent from the floor, but it will be a hard number to achieve versus the defending NBA champions.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Heat due to their 2-0 ATS mark on the road when the total is between 200 and 204.5, while the Mavericks are 4-11 ATS when playing at home within that point range.<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat at Dallas Mavericks Thursday, 12\/20\/12, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 203 Current Total:\u00a0 201.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Miami has won and covered the spread in four of its last five games, including a 103-92 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves as […]<\/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":[19,3622,66,707,3355,3693],"class_list":["post-26756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-eastern-conference","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-o-j-mayo","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26756","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=26756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26757,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26756\/revisions\/26757"}],"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=26756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}