{"id":32346,"date":"2014-01-05T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T18:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32346"},"modified":"2014-01-05T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T18:35:28","slug":"nba-picks-indiana-pacers-vs-cleveland-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-indiana-pacers-vs-cleveland-cavaliers-32346\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Indiana Pacers vs. Cleveland Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana Pacers vs. Cleveland Cavaliers
\nSunday, 1\/5\/14, 6:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -9.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 186
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 184
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Indiana Pacers have dominated the Cleveland Cavaliers in recent years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Indiana is 6-1 SUATS over its last seven games, including a 99-82 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans as 11.5-point home favorites last time out, while going UNDER the betting total in six of those affairs.\u00a0 The Pacers own the NBA\u2019s best record and have already beaten the Cavaliers twice during the 2013-14 campaign, which is important to consider when making your pro basketball picks Sunday.\u00a0 The franchise has won eight consecutive games in the series by allowing an average of 85.6 points.\u00a0 Indiana is 15-2 SU and 12-5 ATS versus losing teams this season.<\/p>\n

The Pacers have all five probable starters averaging in double figures, with forward Paul George leading the charge at 23.5 points a contest.\u00a0 Indiana is 10-5 SU on the road this season, including a 6-3 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Offensively, the team leads the league in allowing just 35.3 points per game in the paint, which includes a 42-24 advantage in the last meeting over the Cavaliers.\u00a0 The franchise has outscored opponents by 8.6 points per game in the second half this season.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has dropped seven of its last eight games, including an 89-82 setback to the Brooklyn Nets as 6.5-point road underdogs Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total in three consecutive affairs.\u00a0 The Cavaliers are unsure if point guard Kyrie Irving\u2019s return for this matchup, as he\u2019s missed the last two games with a left knee injury.\u00a0 He is averaging a team-high 22.2 points and 6.1 assists per game.\u00a0 Cleveland is 2-6 SU and 1-7 ATS versus division foes this season.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers have won all five of their games when holding opponents under 40 percent shooting, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro basketball odds page.\u00a0 Cleveland enter last night\u2019s affair with its bench averaging 39.1 points per game versus conference rivals.\u00a0 The franchise is 9-7 SU at Quicken Loans Arena this season.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cavaliers due to their 8-2 ATS mark in their last 10 home games.<\/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":"

Indiana Pacers vs. Cleveland Cavaliers Sunday, 1\/5\/14, 6:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -9.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -9.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 186 Current Total:\u00a0 184 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Indiana is 6-1 SUATS over its last seven games, including a 99-82 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans as 11.5-point home favorites last time out, […]<\/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":[65,3622,565,3945,18,1918],"class_list":["post-32346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-eastern-conference","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-nba","tag-paul-george"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32346","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=32346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32347,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32346\/revisions\/32347"}],"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=32346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}