{"id":26864,"date":"2012-12-24T17:02:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T22:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26864"},"modified":"2012-12-24T17:02:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T22:02:28","slug":"pro-basketball-odds-and-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-miami-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-basketball-odds-and-picks-oklahoma-city-thunder-vs-miami-heat-26864\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Basketball Odds and Picks: Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Miami Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at Miami Heat
\nTuesday, 12\/25\/12, 5:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 203
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 204
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma City Thunder are known to bounce back after a loss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma City will close out a three-game road trip on Christmas Day, as it looks to bounce back from a 99-93 setback to the Minnesota Timberwolves as two-point road favorites last Thursday.\u00a0 The Thunder are 8-1 in the month of December this year, as they prepare to play their first game as an underdog in the 2012-13 NBA regular season.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is 3-0 ATS off a upset loss as a favorite this season, which is important to consider when looking over the pro basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Thunder have won their past two games on this particular holiday, as they look to improve up on their 10-2 overall mark versus Eastern Conference teams, which includes a 5-1 record on the road.\u00a0 Oklahoma City is already a perfect 4-0 in games following a loss this season, while the franchise posted a 15-3 mark in that situation during the 2011-12 campaign.\u00a0 Offensively, the team ranks second in the NBA in scoring 105.1 points per game, while pacing all squads in hitting 84.5 percent of its free throw attempts.<\/p>\n

Miami has scored 102 or more points in winning its last four games, which includes a 105-89 victory over the Utah Jazz as 7.5-point home favorites, while going UNDER the total for a fifth time in six contests. \u00a0 The Heat are 10-3 overall against Western Conference foes, which includes a 6-1 mark when playing at AmericanAirlines Arena.\u00a0 The franchise has hit at least the century mark in scoring in 13 of its 15 home games, averaging 106.7 points.\u00a0 Miami is 9-6 ATS at home, with the OVER going 8-7 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Heat are 26-4 in their last 30 games in the month of December, as they\u2019ll try to continue scoring points off opponents\u2019 miscues.\u00a0 Miami has averaged 23.0 points off turnovers over the past four games.\u00a0 Tuesday\u2019s game marks the ninth time the franchise has played on Christmas, as it looks to push its win streak to four games on this particular day.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Heat due to the home team covering six of the last seven games in this series.<\/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":"

Oklahoma City Thunder at Miami Heat Tuesday, 12\/25\/12, 5:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 203 Current Total:\u00a0 204 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma City will close out a three-game road trip on Christmas Day, as it looks to bounce back from a 99-93 setback […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[6360,6234,3622,707,18,399,3693],"class_list":["post-26864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-americanairlines-arena","tag-christmas-day","tag-eastern-conference","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864","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=26864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26865,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864\/revisions\/26865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}