{"id":27268,"date":"2013-01-13T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T17:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=27268"},"modified":"2013-01-13T12:14:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T17:14:58","slug":"nba-picks-cleveland-cavaliers-vs-los-angeles-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-cleveland-cavaliers-vs-los-angeles-lakers-27268\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Los Angeles Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Cavaliers at Los Angeles Lakers
\nSunday, 1\/13\/13, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TWSN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 211
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 211.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Lakers are hoping that forward Pau Gasol can return to action Sunday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cleveland has dropped three of its last four games, including a 98-91 setback to the Denver Nuggets as 12.5-point road underdogs Friday night, while going UNDER the total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re still young and dumb and don\u2019t understand what we have to do in the third quarter,\u201d stated Cavaliers head coach Byron Scott.\u00a0 The Cavaliers have split four meetings with the Lakers since the departure of star LeBron James to Miami, which includes a 100-94 victory as 6.5-point home underdogs on Dec. 11.\u00a0 Cleveland is 4-4 ATS as a road underdog of 6.5 to 9 points this season, with the OVER going 5-3 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are led offensively by point guard Kyrie Irving, who has averaged 24.5 points on 51.4 percent shooting in two career games against the Lakers.\u00a0 He has also managed to average 27.8 points and 5.8 assists over his last five contests overall.\u00a0 Cleveland should be able to get after it on the offensive glass, as it has out-rebounded its opponent in that situation in 28 of 38 games this season.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles is mired in its longest losing streak since March 2007, as it dropped its sixth consecutive game in a 116-101 setback to the Oklahoma City Thunder as six-point home underdogs Friday night.\u00a0 \u201cI told the team, the biggest thing is our season starts Sunday,\u201d stated Lakers guard Kobe Bryant.\u00a0 He scored 28 points last time out, while leading the league in averaging 30.0 points.\u00a0 The franchise is 10-9 at the Staples Center this year, including a 4-3 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 5-5 ATS as a home favorite of 6.5 to 9 points this season, which is important to consider when looking over the pro basketball odds page.<\/p>\n

The Lakers will be playing their fourth game without center Dwight Howard (shoulder), while power forward Pau Gasol is listed as questionable after missing the last three contests with concussion symptoms.\u00a0 Los Angeles has split the last four meetings in this series, with both wins coming at home, as it held Cleveland to a combined 34 percent shooting from the floor in those affairs.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the UNDER is 8-2 in the last 10 meetings.<\/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":"

Cleveland Cavaliers at Los Angeles Lakers Sunday, 1\/13\/13, 9:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TWSN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 211 Current Total:\u00a0 211.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Cleveland has dropped three of its last four games, including a 98-91 setback to the Denver Nuggets as 12.5-point road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[65,67,3945,68,18,909,3624],"class_list":["post-27268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-pau-gasol","tag-staples-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268","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=27268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27269,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268\/revisions\/27269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}