{"id":32060,"date":"2013-12-26T23:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32060"},"modified":"2013-12-26T17:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T22:52:21","slug":"nba-picks-miami-heat-vs-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-miami-heat-vs-sacramento-kings-32060\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Miami Heat vs. Sacramento Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat vs. Sacramento Kings
\nFriday, 12\/27\/13, 10:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 209
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 209
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Sacramento Kings have scored 100 or more points in 10 of their last 11 games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami has won six games in a row, including a 101-95 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers as 9.5-point road favorites on Christmas Day, while going UNDER the betting total for the first time in six contests.\u00a0 The Heat have three players averaging in double figures, with forward LeBron James leading the way at 25.2 points per game, which is important to consider when making your NBA betting picks.\u00a0 He has scored in double-figures in 523 consecutive games.\u00a0 Miami is 3-0 SUATS as road favorites of 6.5 to 9 points this season, with the UNDER going 2-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Heat are 8-4 SU on the road this season, including a 2-0 mark versus Western Conference opponents, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NBA betting lines.\u00a0 Miami is 34-16 SU all-time against Sacramento, including a 122-103 victory as 10-point home favorites a week ago, while going OVER for the fifth consecutive matchup in the series.\u00a0 The franchise has won 19 consecutive out-of-conference games, which is the longest such winning streak in its history.<\/p>\n

Sacramento has dropped four of its last five games, including a 113-100 setback to the New Orleans Hornets as one-point home favorites Monday, while going OVER the betting total for a fourth consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Kings are 5-11 SU at Sleep Train Arena this season, including a 1-2 mark versus Eastern Conference foes.\u00a0 Forward DeMarcus Cousins is leading the team in averaging 22.5 points and 10.8 rebounds per game, while new addition Rudy Gay has scored 20 or more points in four of seven contests since being acquired from the Toronto Raptors.\u00a0 Sacramento is 4-7 SU and 7-4 ATS as home underdogs of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 8-3 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Kings have scored 100 or more points in 10 of their last 11 games\u2014averaging 103.6 points over that span.\u00a0 Sacramento has been getting great production out of first-year player Ben McLemore, who was named the Western Conference\u2019s Rookie of the Month for November, as he averaged 9.1 points in 22.8 minutes of action.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the OVER is 5-0 in the last five meetings 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":"

Miami Heat vs. Sacramento Kings Friday, 12\/27\/13, 10:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 209 Current Total:\u00a0 209 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Miami has won six games in a row, including a 101-95 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers as 9.5-point road favorites on Christmas Day, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[1912,66,707,18,582,7242],"class_list":["post-32060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-demarcus-cousins","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sleep-train-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060","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=32060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32062,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060\/revisions\/32062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}