{"id":33636,"date":"2014-03-25T12:32:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T17:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33636"},"modified":"2014-03-25T12:32:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T17:32:48","slug":"nba-predictions-toronto-raptors-vs-cleveland-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-predictions-toronto-raptors-vs-cleveland-cavaliers-33636\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Predictions: Toronto Raptors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Raptors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers
\nTuesday, 3\/25\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Toronto -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Toronto -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 196
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 194.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Toronto Raptors are 5-2 SUATS as road favorites of 3.5 to 6 points<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Toronto has alternated wins and losses over its last four contests, as it comes off a 96-86 victory over the Atlanta Hawks as 7.5-point home favorites Sunday, while going UNDER the betting total for the first time in five games.\u00a0 The Raptors continue to hold a half-game lead over the Chicago Bulls for the No. 3 seed in the upcoming Eastern Conference playoffs, which is important to consider when making your NBA predictions Tuesday night.\u00a0 The team has an opportunity to reach 40 wins for the seventh time in franchise history with a victory in this spot.\u00a0 Toronto is 5-2 SUATS as road favorites of 3.5 to 6 points this season, with the UNDER going 5-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Raptors are 18-16 SU on the road this season\u2014their most wins away from home since the 2001-02 campaign.\u00a0 Toronto point guard Kyle Lowry has scored 19-plus points in a career-high nine consecutive games\u2014averaging 22.6 points and 7.9 assists over that span.\u00a0 All five of the team\u2019s starters are on pace to set career highs for minutes per game.<\/p>\n

Cleveland snapped a four-game losing streak by picking up a 106-100 victory over the New York Knicks as 10-point road underdogs Sunday, while going OVER the betting total for the third time in four contests.\u00a0 The Cavaliers have four of five probable starters averaging double figures, with forward Luol Deng leading the way at 16.6 points a contest, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NBA betting lines.\u00a0 In its first two meetings against Toronto, the squad has had five players averaging 10 or more points.\u00a0 Cleveland is 5-1 ATS as home underdogs of 3.5 to 6 points this season.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers have connected on at least 50 percent of their field goal attempts in three of their last four games\u2014averaging 102.0 points and dishing out 26.0 assists over that span.\u00a0 Cleveland has compiled a 15-20 SU record at Quicken Loans Arena, including a 9-11 mark versus conference foes.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Cavaliers due to their 8-2 ATS mark after scoring 100 or more points in their previous game.<\/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":"

Toronto Raptors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers Tuesday, 3\/25\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Toronto -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Toronto -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 196 Current Total:\u00a0 194.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Toronto has alternated wins and losses over its last four contests, as it comes off a 96-86 victory over the Atlanta Hawks as 7.5-point home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[65,3622,4001,3206,18,693],"class_list":["post-33636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-eastern-conference","tag-kyle-lowry","tag-luol-deng","tag-nba","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636","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=33636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33637,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636\/revisions\/33637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}