{"id":33373,"date":"2014-03-11T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T19:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33373"},"modified":"2014-03-11T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T19:32:43","slug":"nba-picks-brooklyn-nets-vs-miami-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-brooklyn-nets-vs-miami-heat-33373\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Brooklyn Nets vs. Miami Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn Nets vs. Miami Heat
\nWednesday, 3\/12\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 201
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 201
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Miami Heat have won eight consecutive home games against the Brooklyn Nets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brooklyn has won six of its last seven games, including a 101-97 victory over the Toronto Raptors as three-point home favorites Monday, while going OVER the betting total of 197.5.\u00a0 The Nets have three of five probable starters averaging in double figures, with guard Joe Johnson leading the way at 15.2 points a contest, which is important to consider when making your NBA betting picks.\u00a0 The franchise is 12-19 SU on the road, including a 6-12 mark when taking on Eastern Conference rivals.<\/p>\n

The Nets have seemingly turned things around since the calendar turned to 2014, as they\u2019ve compiled a 22-9 SU record over that span, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro basketball odds page.\u00a0 Brooklyn is trying to snap an eight-game road\u00a0 losing streak against the two-time defending league champions, but it joins the Chicago Bulls as the only two teams to defeat Miami twice this season.\u00a0 The squad is 26-10 SU when holding opponents under the century mark\u2014accomplishing that feat in a 104-95 overtime victory over Miami as five-point home underdogs in the most recent meeting in the series.<\/p>\n

Miami snapped a three-game losing streak by picking up a 99-90 victory over the Washington Wizards as eight-point home favorites Monday, while going UNDER the betting total for a third consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Heat are 25-4 SU at the AmericanAirlines Arena during the 2013-14 campaign, including a 17-2 mark versus conference foes.\u00a0 Forward LeBron James is the main player to handicap in this affair, considering he\u2019s scored in double-figures in 554 consecutive games.\u00a0 Miami is 4-0-1 ATS in its last five home games.<\/p>\n

The Heat are a league-best 16-2 at home since Dec. 10, with the only losses coming to 40-win teams Golden State and Oklahoma City.\u00a0 James had 26 points in the first meeting in this series and 36 in the last one despite fouling out for the first time since 2008.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Heat due to the home team covering the number in six of the last seven 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":"

Brooklyn Nets vs. Miami Heat Wednesday, 3\/12\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 201 Current Total:\u00a0 201 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Brooklyn has won six of its last seven games, including a 101-97 victory over the Toronto Raptors as three-point home favorites Monday, while going OVER […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[6360,7131,2897,66,707,18],"class_list":["post-33373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-americanairlines-arena","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-joe-johnson","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33373","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=33373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33374,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33373\/revisions\/33374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}