{"id":27170,"date":"2013-01-08T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27170"},"modified":"2013-01-08T12:30:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T17:30:47","slug":"pro-basketball-betting-odds-and-picks-miami-heat-vs-indiana-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-basketball-betting-odds-and-picks-miami-heat-vs-indiana-pacers-27170\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Basketball Betting Odds and Picks: Miami Heat vs. Indiana Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat at Indiana Pacers
\nTuesday, 1\/8\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSIN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 188
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 187
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Miami Heat are 0-2 ATS as a road favorites of three points or less this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami has alternated wins and losses over its last three games, coming off a 99-71 victory over the Washington Wizards as 13.5-point home favorites Sunday, while going UNDER the total in consecutive contests.\u00a0 The Heat will certainly be challenged in this affair, as they\u2019ve gone 9-35 in Indianapolis during the regular season.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re going to see where we\u2019re at,\u201d stated Heat forward Chris Bosh.\u00a0 Miami is 0-2 ATS as a road favorite of three points or less this season, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your pro basketball picks Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The Heat are 7-6 overall on the road this season, including a losing 3-4 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Miami is led by the play of forward LeBron James, who is averaging 26.5 points per game, while also managing to score at least 20 points in the first 32 games of the 2012-13 NBA season.\u00a0 In the last four games, the team has committed just 9.5 turnovers per game, which is much better than the 14.4 it committed through the first 28 contests.\u00a0 James averaged 30.0 points and 10.8 rebounds against the Pacers in last year\u2019s playoff series.<\/p>\n

Indiana has won three of its last four games, including a 95-80 win over the Milwaukee Bucks Saturday, while going UNDER the total for a fourth straight time.\u00a0 The Packers are allowing just 89.8 points per game due to holding foes to an NBA-low 41.4 percent shooting from the field, which is important to consider when looking over the pro basketball odds page.\u00a0 \u201cIt takes all of us,\u201d commented Pacers guard George Hill.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re buying into it.\u201d\u00a0 The team is 12-3 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse this year, including a 5-1 mark versus conference foes.\u00a0 Indiana is 10-17 ATS when playing with two days rest over the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 17-11 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Pacers have failed to score at least 90 points 14 times this season, which has led to an even 7-7 record in those contests.\u00a0 Indiana has averaged 15.4 turnovers per game, while forcing the opposition into just 13.1, which has led to the squad averaging just 12.5 fast break points per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Pacers due to their 9-6 ATS mark at home, while the Heat are 0-5 ATS versus Central division opponents.<\/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 Indiana Pacers Tuesday, 1\/8\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FSIN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 188 Current Total:\u00a0 187 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Miami has alternated wins and losses over its last three games, coming off a 99-71 victory over the Washington Wizards as 13.5-point home […]<\/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":[6433,692,3622,3928,565,66,707,18],"class_list":["post-27170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-bankers-life-fieldhouse","tag-chris-bosh","tag-eastern-conference","tag-george-hill","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27170","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=27170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27171,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27170\/revisions\/27171"}],"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=27170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}