{"id":4761,"date":"2008-11-26T13:10:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T18:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2008-11-26T13:10:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T18:10:56","slug":"preview-prediction-heat-trailblazers-261108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/nba\/preview-prediction-heat-trailblazers-261108\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Preview: Heat vs. Trailblazers"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBA Basketball Betting Trends – Miami Heat vs. Portland Trailblazers<\/h2>\n

The Miami Heat travel to Portland to take on a Trailblazers team that has just gotten better since Greg Oden has finally hit the court. Oden, last season\u2019s number one draft pick, had been a huge disappointment to sports betting fans suffering injury after injury, but once he got healthy, online sportsbook fans knew that the Blazers would start winning games. They have.<\/p>\n

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After a sluggish start to the NBA Season, the Portland Trailblazers are now 9 and 6 straight-up and 8 and 7 against the BetUS online wagering spread. Another stat that NBA betting fans should keep in mind is that the Portland Trailblazers are 5 and 0 straight-up at home.<\/p>\n

The Miami Heat is actually a better team than a lot of online sportsbook wagering fans might think. They aren\u2019t dominant, like the Los Angeles Lakers or Boston Celtics, but they aren\u2019t a bunch of has beens. A lot of Miami\u2019s success is due to one of the top five players in the NBA, Dwayne Wade.<\/p>\n

D-Wade is a monster out there. Without him, this team is terrible. With him, they seem to have a chance on most nights. Straight-up the Miami Heat is 7 and 7. Against the BetUS online sportsbook wagering spread they are 6-7-1. On the road against the spread the Heat is an okay 2-3-1.<\/p>\n

Here are the BetUS online sportsbook betting odds for this game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Miami Heat\t + 7 – 110\t O 193 \u00bd – 110
\nPortland Trailblazers\t – 7 – 110\t U 193 \u00bd – 110<\/p>\n

Here are a few online wagering trends that might help us find a good online bet in this game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Miami Heat is 7 and 1 against the spread in their last 8 games following an against the spread loss.
\nThe Over is 4 and 1 in the Miami Heat\u2019s last 5 games overall.
\nThe Portland Trailblazers are 7 and 2 against the spread in their last 9 games at home.
\nThe Under is 5 and 2 in the Portland Trailblazers last 7 games overall.<\/p>\n

The Heat and Trailblazers are almost identical in terms of how good their players are. Of course, the Blazers have Greg Oden and Brandon Roy, but that\u2019s not the reason they are better than the Heat.<\/p>\n

In fact, I\u2019m not sure if the Trailblazers are. As much as I love the fact that Oden is finally getting to show basketball betting fans what he can do, I can\u2019t get past the fact that the Miami Heat are receiving 7 points in this game.<\/p>\n

Heat vs. Trailblazers Prediction:<\/h3>\n

That\u2019s a lot of points to give Dwayne Wade and company. I\u2019m going to have to go with my instincts on this one and make an online bet on the Miami Heat to beat the BetUS online sportsbook betting spread of 7 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Miami Heat travel to Portland to take on a Trailblazers team that has just gotten better since Greg Oden has finally hit the court. We preview and pick this NBA Hoops matchup…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4573,116,1597,3938,3939,4045,4494,4575,5317,5318,5316,5319,5320,744,1599,4574,747,749,3951,4576],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-2008-nba-picks","tag-basketball-bet","tag-basketball-handicapping","tag-basketball-odds","tag-bet-on-basketball","tag-free-nba-picks","tag-free-nba-prediction","tag-gamble-nba","tag-heat-vs-blazers","tag-heat-vs-trailblazers","tag-heat-vs-trailblazers-prediction","tag-miami-heat-vs-portland-trailblazers","tag-miami-vs-portland","tag-nba-betting","tag-nba-free-picks","tag-nba-free-predictions","tag-nba-lines","tag-nba-odds","tag-nba-preview","tag-wager-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5563,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/5563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}