{"id":32425,"date":"2014-01-09T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T19:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=32425"},"modified":"2014-01-09T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:30:45","slug":"nba-picks-miami-heat-vs-new-york-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-miami-heat-vs-new-york-knicks-32425\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Miami Heat vs. New York Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat vs. New York Knicks
\nThursday, 1\/9\/14, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 197
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 197
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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New York Knicks F Carmelo Anthony was sensational against the Miami Heat last season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami has won three games in a row, including a 107-88 victory over the New Orleans Hornets as 8.5-point home favorites Tuesday, while going UNDER the betting total in two consecutive contests.\u00a0 The Heat are 11-5 SU on the road this season, including a 7-4 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents, which is important to consider when making your NBA betting picks.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is led by forward LeBron James, who\u2019s averaging 25.5 points per game.\u00a0 Miami is 20-3 SU and 16-7 ATS as road favorites of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Heat dropped three of four meetings against the Knicks last season, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NBA betting lines.\u00a0 Miami is averaging 104.9 points per game on 51.1 percent shooting, while it holds opponents to 97.9 points a contest.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that starters Mario Chalmers (Achilles) and Shane Battier (quad) remain day-to-day after both sat out the team\u2019s previous affair.<\/p>\n

New York is 3-1 SU and 4-0 ATS over its last four games, as it comes off an 89-85 victory over the Detroit Pistons as three-point home favorites Tuesday, while going UNDER the betting total for a third consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Knicks have three probable starters averaging in double figures, with forward Carmelo Anthony leading the way at 26.3 points a contest.\u00a0 He has averaged 38.5 points in his last four regular-season meetings in this series.\u00a0 New York is 5-12 SU and 4-13 ATS at home this season, with the OVER going 10-7 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Knicks are hoping that guard Iman Shumpert can continue his strong play on the offensive end, as he\u2019s averaged 20.7 points on 68.8 percent shooting from the field over his last three games.\u00a0 New York also needs front court players Tyson Chandler and Kenyon Martin to become available\u2014with both dealing with an illness that has worked its way through the team\u2019s locker room.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Heat due to the favorite covering eight of the last 11 meetings in the 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. New York Knicks Thursday, 1\/9\/14, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 197 Current Total:\u00a0 197 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Miami has won three games in a row, including a 107-88 victory over the New Orleans Hornets as 8.5-point home favorites Tuesday, while going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[49,3622,66,707,18,115],"class_list":["post-32425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-eastern-conference","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32425","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=32425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32426,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32425\/revisions\/32426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}