{"id":33406,"date":"2014-03-14T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33406"},"modified":"2014-03-14T14:24:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:24:39","slug":"nba-predictions-denver-nuggets-vs-miami-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-predictions-denver-nuggets-vs-miami-heat-33406\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Predictions: Denver Nuggets vs. Miami Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver Nuggets vs. Miami Heat
\nFriday, 3\/14\/14, 7:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -10.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -10.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 213
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 214.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker
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The Miami Heat are 1-4 SUATS in their last five games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Denver snapped a two-game losing streak last time out, as it picked up a 120-112 victory over the Orlando Magic as three-point road favorites Wednesday, while going OVER the betting total for the fifth time in six contests.\u00a0 The Nuggets have four of five probable starters averaging double figures, with point guard Ty Lawson leading the way at 18.6 points per contest.\u00a0 The team is 12-20 SU on the road this season, including a 6-7 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents, which is important to consider when making your NBA predictions.\u00a0 Denver is 0-3 SU and 2-1 ATS as road underdogs of 9.5 to 12 points this season.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets have won 11 of their last 16 meetings with the Heat, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro basketball odds page.\u00a0 Lawson is the main player to watch in this matchup, considering he\u2019s one of four players in the league averaging 18.0 points and 8.0 assists per game.\u00a0 Denver also possesses a bench that has outscored opponents in 42 of 64 games during the 2013-14 campaign.<\/p>\n

Miami is 1-4 SUATS over its last five games, as it attempts to bounce back from a 96-95 setback to the Brooklyn Nets as nine-point home favorites Wednesday, while going UNDER the betting total for a fourth consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Heat have four of five probable starters averaging in double figures, with forward LeBron James leading the way at 26.9 points a game.\u00a0 Miami is 2-0 SUATS in games with a betting total of 210 or higher this season.<\/p>\n

The Heat haven\u2019t lost back-to-back home games since 2010-11, as they look for James to pick up his scoring production.\u00a0 He has averaged 20.0 points on 44.8 percent shooting since his 61-point outburst on March 3.\u00a0 Miami may need a big performance from center Chris Bosh, who has averaged 23.7 points during the franchise\u2019s three-game winning streak in this series.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Nuggets due to the underdog being 5-0 ATS in the last five meetings in this non-conference series.<\/p>\n

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Denver Nuggets vs. Miami Heat Friday, 3\/14\/14, 7:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -10.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -10.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 213 Current Total:\u00a0 214.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Denver snapped a two-game losing streak last time out, as it picked up a 120-112 victory over the Orlando Magic as three-point road favorites Wednesday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[526,66,707,18,216],"class_list":["post-33406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-ty-lawson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33406","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=33406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33407,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33406\/revisions\/33407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}