{"id":33498,"date":"2014-03-18T15:13:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33498"},"modified":"2014-03-18T15:13:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:13:26","slug":"nba-predictions-miami-heat-vs-cleveland-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-predictions-miami-heat-vs-cleveland-cavaliers-33498\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Predictions: Miami Heat vs. Cleveland Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat vs. Cleveland Cavaliers
\nTuesday, 3\/18\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -9
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -10.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 195.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 196
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Miami Heat have won nine consecutive games against the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami snapped its two-game losing streak in picking up a 113-104 victory over the Houston rockets as 5.5-point home favorites last time out, while going OVER the betting total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Heat are led by the play of forward LeBron James, who is averaging 26.7 points per game, which is important to consider when making your NBA predictions.\u00a0 The team is 19-13 SU on the road ,including a 10-9 mark when taking on Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Miami is 10-4 SU and 6-8 ATS as road favorites of 9.5 to 12 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Heat have captured wins in their first two meetings with the Cavaliers and will look to sweep this season series for a third consecutive season.\u00a0 Miami enters this affair on a nine-game winning streak against Cleveland\u2014tying its third-longest current winning streak against any league opponent.\u00a0 The team has compiled a dominating 33-4 SU record this season when holding opponents to under 100 points.<\/p>\n

Cleveland had its two-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it dropped a 102-80 decision to the Los Angeles Clippers as 11.5-point road underdogs Sunday, while going UNDER the betting total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Cavaliers are dangerous on the glass if the Heat fail to box out, as they rank fourth in the league in grabbing 12.5 offensive rebounds per game, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NBA betting lines.\u00a0 Cleveland is 2-5 SU and 4-3 ATS as home underdogs of 9.5 to 12 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are 15-17 SU at Quicken Loans Arena this season, including a 9-10 mark versus conference foes.\u00a0 On the season, Cleveland\u2019s bench is averaging 35.1 points per game\u2014outscoring opponents in that all-important category in 42 of 67 contests.\u00a0 Guard Dion Waiters is one player to watch in this matchup, as he\u2019s averaging 19.6 points on 50 percent shooting in five all-time meetings versus Miami.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cavaliers due to the underdog being 5-1 ATS in the last six meetings in this series.<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat vs. Cleveland Cavaliers Tuesday, 3\/18\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -9 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -10.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 195.5 Current Total:\u00a0 196 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Miami snapped its two-game losing streak in picking up a 113-104 victory over the Houston rockets as 5.5-point home favorites last time out, while going […]<\/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":[65,8168,66,707,18,4036],"class_list":["post-33498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-dion-waiters","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-quicken-loans-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33498","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=33498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33500,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33498\/revisions\/33500"}],"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=33498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}