{"id":9988,"date":"2010-10-27T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=9988"},"modified":"2010-10-27T10:12:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T15:12:56","slug":"pro-basketball-selections-miami-heat-at-philadelphia-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-basketball-selections-miami-heat-at-philadelphia-76ers-9988\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Basketball Selections: Miami Heat at Philadelphia 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat at Philadelphia 76ers
\nWednesday, 10\/27\/10, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 190
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 189.5
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Miami -355 \/ Philadelphia +295<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade was limited to 13 points in a 88-80 loss in Boston last night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami dropped an 88-80 road contest to the Boston Celtics last night and the experts that predicted this team was going to break the Chicago Bull\u2019s 72-win season may have a lot of explaining to do.\u00a0 \u201cThis is one of 82,\u201d said guard Dwyane Wade in his post-game conference.\u00a0 \u201cSorry if everyone thought we were going to go 82-0.\u00a0 It just ain\u2019t happening.\u201d\u00a0 He was limited to 13 points on 4-of-16 shooting.\u00a0 Two-time MVP Lebron James led the team by scoring 31 points and forward Chris Bosh added eight points and eight rebounds.\u00a0 The hyped trio combined for 15 of the Heat\u2019s 17 turnovers.\u00a0 Miami really never had a chance in last night\u2019s game due to scoring just nine points in the opening frame.\u00a0 The team is 11-5 ATS as a road favorite and the NBA basketball oddsmakers opened them as a eight-point favorite tonight in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

The Heat can\u2019t be too concerned with last night\u2019s outcome considering all the new pieces and Wade missing all but three minutes of the preseason with a hamstring injury.\u00a0 Still, in no quarter last season did Miami without Bosh and James score so few points then last night\u2019s opening frame.\u00a0 Neither did James with Cleveland in 2009-10.\u00a0 \u201cWe know it isn\u2019t going to be easy,\u201d head caoch Erik Spoelstra said.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s not a reason to panic right now.\u201d\u00a0 He faced a difficult decision in the offseason and ultimately kept Wade and Udonis Haslem as co-captains this season.\u00a0 An important note in the backcourt must be mentioned that guard Carlos Arroyo beat out Mario Chalmers for the opening-night start at point guard.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia opens its season against the most talked about team in the league tonight and will look to snap a four-game losing streak to Heat.\u00a0 \u201cI think we were all ready to move on from last year,\u201d said forward Thaddeus Young.\u00a0 The Sixers have a new head coach, as Doug Collins becomes the seventh man to take over the sidelines since Larry Brown left in 2003.\u00a0 \u201cI know the pulse of the city,\u201d said Collins.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve had a chance to live it.\u00a0 I\u2019m blessed to be the coach here.\u201d\u00a0 The club posted a 27-55 mark last season and missed the playoffs for the first time in three years.\u00a0 Philadelphia added to the depth of its bench with the additions of Spencer Hawes and Andres Nocioni during the offseason.\u00a0 The team finished off the 2009-10 season with a 3-1-1 ATS mark as an underdog.<\/p>\n

The Sixers were outscored by 11.5 points per game in the four games against the Heat last season, but managed to snap a seven-game streak of scoring below 100 against them with 150 points in the last meeting.\u00a0 Philadelphia\u2019s defensive focus must remain on Wade despite the opponents new-look roster, as he scored a series-high 28.5 points on 53.8 shooting last season.\u00a0 The squad finished the preseason with a 2-5 mark after posting a winning record the previous two preseasons.\u00a0 Over the final four games, Philly averaged 108.0 points after averaging 83.3 in the first three games.<\/p>\n

Bettors will take notice that the Heat are 0-5 ATS in their last five road games, while the Sixers are 11-28-1 ATS in their last 40 home games.<\/p>\n

Maddux Sports produced a perfect 3-0 NBA record on opening night and has the best NBA handicappers to attack a full card on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat at Philadelphia 76ers Wednesday, 10\/27\/10, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 190 Current Total:\u00a0 189.5 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Miami -355 \/ Philadelphia +295 Miami dropped an 88-80 road contest to the Boston Celtics last night and the experts that predicted this team was going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[692,175,2896,66,707,832],"class_list":["post-9988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chris-bosh","tag-doug-collins","tag-dwyane-wade","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988","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=9988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9990,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions\/9990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}