{"id":31714,"date":"2013-12-09T20:47:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T01:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31714"},"modified":"2013-12-09T20:47:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T01:47:22","slug":"nba-picks-miami-heat-vs-indiana-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-miami-heat-vs-indiana-pacers-31714\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Miami Heat vs. Indiana Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat vs. Indiana Pacers
\nTuesday, 12\/10\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBATV
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 189
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 189
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Indiana Pacers are 9-0 SU at home this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami will close out a four-game road trip Tuesday night, as it comes off a pair of victories, including a 110-95 blowout win over the Detroit Pistons as 3.5-point road favorites Sunday.\u00a0 The Heat are 7-3 SU on the road during the 2013-14 campaign, including a 6-3 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents, which is important to consider when making your NBA betting picks.\u00a0 Offensively, forward Lebron James is the player to watch, as he\u2019s averaging a team-high 25.4 points per game.\u00a0 Miami is 2-4 SUATS as road underdogs of three or fewer points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Heat are averaging 103.5 points per game, while giving up 95.9 a contest, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro basketball odds page.\u00a0 Miami has won all 15 games this season when holding opponents under 100 points, while it has captured 46 of its last 47 contests when hitting 10-or-more shots from beyond the arc.\u00a0 James has currently scored in double-figures in 516 consecutive games.<\/p>\n

Indiana returns home after posting a 3-2 record on its five-game road trip, which ended with a 118-94 defeat to the Oklahoma City Thunder Sunday, while going OVER the betting total for the fourth time in five affairs.\u00a0 Pacers forward Paul George is enjoying a tremendous season, as he comes in averaging 25.1 points and 5.8 rebounds per game.\u00a0 \u00a0 The franchise is a perfect 9-0 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, while it has gone 37-9 overall against Miami at this venue.\u00a0 Indiana is 3-6 SUATS as home favorites of three or fewer points since the 2011-12 season.<\/p>\n

The Pacers are currently ninth in the league in averaging 44.2 rebounds per game, while their 138 blocked shots sit behind only the Houston Rockets in that defensive category.\u00a0 Indiana is first in the NBA in defensive field goal percentage\u2014holding foes to 40.8 percent shooting.\u00a0 The squad is also allowing the fewest fast-break points in the league at 9.7 points per game in transition.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Pacers due to their 26-10 ATS mark in their last 36 games following a SU loss.<\/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 vs. Indiana Pacers Tuesday, 12\/10\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBATV Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 189 Current Total:\u00a0 189 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Miami will close out a four-game road trip Tuesday night, as it comes off a pair of victories, including a 110-95 blowout win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[6433,565,66,707,18,1918],"class_list":["post-31714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-bankers-life-fieldhouse","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-paul-george"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31714","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=31714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31715,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31714\/revisions\/31715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}