{"id":33278,"date":"2014-03-04T13:23:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33278"},"modified":"2014-03-04T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:23:58","slug":"nba-picks-san-antonio-spurs-vs-cleveland-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-san-antonio-spurs-vs-cleveland-cavaliers-33278\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: San Antonio Spurs vs. Cleveland Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs vs. Cleveland Cavaliers
\nTuesday, 3\/4\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Antonio -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 203
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 203
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The San Antonio Spurs have won their last eight games against the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

San Antonio has won three games in a row, including a 112-106 victory over the Dallas Mavericks as 6.5-point home favorites Sunday, while going OVER the betting total of 208.5.\u00a0 The Spurs have three probable starters averaging in double figures, with point guard Tony Parker leading the way at 17.8 points a contest, which is important to consider when making your NBA betting picks.\u00a0 The team is 22-8 SU on the road this season, including a 9-3 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 San Antonio is 6-0 SU and 4-2 ATS as road favorites of 6.5 to 9 points this season.<\/p>\n

The Spurs have won eight consecutive games in this series, including a 126-96 victory on Nov. 23.\u00a0 San Antonio has won 25 of 26 games when out-rebounding its opponent during the 2013-14 NBA campaign, while it has dropped just one of 33 opportunities when entering the final quarter with a lead.<\/p>\n

Cleveland had its two-game winning streak snapped last Saturday, as it dropped a 110-96 decision to the Memphis Grizzlies as nine-point road underdogs, while going OVER the betting total of 184.\u00a0 The Cavaliers have won four of their last five games versus Western Conference opponents\u2014picking up those victories by an average of 6.8 points.\u00a0 It\u2019s also important to point out that the team has knocked down 81.5 percent of its shots from the charity stripe over its last eight affairs.\u00a0 Cleveland is 21-18 ATS as an underdog during the 2013-14 season.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are 15-15 SU at Quicken Loans Arena, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro basketball odds page.\u00a0 Cleveland is led by the play of point guard Kyrie Irving offensively, as he\u2019s averaging 21.5 points on 43 percent shooting from the field, while dishing out 6.3 assists per contest.\u00a0 He scored a game-high 28 points on 11 of 19 shooting last time out.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Spurs due to their 7-2 ATS mark in the last nine 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":"

San Antonio Spurs vs. Cleveland Cavaliers Tuesday, 3\/4\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Antonio -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 San Antonio -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 203 Current Total:\u00a0 203 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker San Antonio has won three games in a row, including a 112-106 victory over the Dallas Mavericks as 6.5-point home favorites Sunday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[65,3945,18,141,1029,3693],"class_list":["post-33278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-tony-parker","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33278","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=33278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33279,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33278\/revisions\/33279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}