{"id":33451,"date":"2014-03-16T09:44:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33451"},"modified":"2014-03-16T09:44:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T14:44:16","slug":"nba-predictions-houston-rockets-vs-miami-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-predictions-houston-rockets-vs-miami-heat-33451\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Predictions: Houston Rockets vs. Miami Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Rockets vs. Miami Heat
\nSunday, 3\/16\/14, 3:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 209
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 208.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Miami Heat have been great at home under head coach Erik Spoelstra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Houston has dropped back-to-back games, including a 111-87 setback to the Chicago Bulls as 3.5-point road favorites last Thursday, while going OVER the betting total of 193.5.\u00a0 The Rockets have four of five probable starters averaging in double figures, with shooting guard James Harden leading the way at 24.6 points a contest, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NBA predictions.\u00a0 The team is 18-14 SU on the road, including a 6-4 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Houston is 1-5 SUATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points this season.<\/p>\n

The Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers are the only two teams in the league that haven\u2019t had a three-game losing streak, which is important to consider when looking over the NBA betting lines.\u00a0 At 20-4 versus the East, Houston holds the league\u2019s best mark outside of its own conference.\u00a0 The team has also won 23 of its 31 games since the calendar turned to 2014\u2014not losing a contest when scoring 100 or more points over that span.<\/p>\n

Miami has dropped five of its last six games, including a 111-107 decision to the Denver Nuggets as 11-point home favorites last Friday, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in five contests.\u00a0 The Heat are 17-7 SU versus non-conference foes during the 2013-14 campaign, including an 8-3 mark when playing inside the AmericanAirlines Arena.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the franchise has compiled a dominating 172-56 SU record at home under head coach Erik Spoelstra.\u00a0 Miami is 10-3 SU and 7-5-1 ATS when revenging a loss versus an opponent this season.<\/p>\n

The Heat are 33-4 SU this season when holding opponents to under 100 points, while they\u2019ve already clinched a playoff spot.\u00a0 Miami continues to be led by forward LeBron James on both ends of the floor, as he enters averaging 26.8 points, 6.9 rebounds and 6.5 assists.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Heat due to their 13-5 ATS mark in their last 18 Sunday 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":"

Houston Rockets vs. Miami Heat Sunday, 3\/16\/14, 3:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 209 Current Total:\u00a0 208.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Houston has dropped back-to-back games, including a 111-87 setback to the Chicago Bulls as 3.5-point road favorites last Thursday, while going OVER the betting total […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[3622,831,3595,66,707,18],"class_list":["post-33451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-eastern-conference","tag-houston-rockets","tag-james-harden","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33451","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=33451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33453,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33451\/revisions\/33453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}