{"id":9082,"date":"2009-03-02T18:12:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T23:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=9082"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:11:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:11:50","slug":"monday-cavs-heat-odds-preview-20309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/nba\/monday-cavs-heat-odds-preview-20309\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Cavs vs. Heat NBA Hoops Previews (Mar. 2nd)"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBA: Cavs tested again<\/h2>\n

The Cleveland Cavaliers barely survived in Atlanta on Sunday and now have another tough test at the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n

Sportsbook.com<\/strong> has Cleveland as 3 \u00bd-point favorites with a Total of 186.5. The game will be played at 7:30 pm ET<\/p>\n

Cleveland (46-12, 37-21 ATS) is playing their fourth road game in five nights, as the Cavs erased a five-point deficit with 1:42 remaining to win at Atlanta 88-87 last night. This has been no ordinary road trip either for Cleveland, with every opponent well-positioned to make the postseason.<\/p>\n

LeBron James drew a foul with 1.6 seconds left and made one of two free throws and the Cavaliers survived. Cleveland picked up a game on Boston for the Eastern Conference lead and has the same amount of losses as the Lakers, who have dropped two in a row.<\/p>\n

Miami Heat stud Dwyane Wade, after missing 31 games a season ago, is the leading scorer in the NBA<\/strong><\/a> at 29 PPG. He is coming off a week that saw him post a career best 50 points and five days later put up 46 more.\"\"<\/p>\n

In the two games in-between those gargantuan totals, he helped his teammates score by dishing out 26 assists. Wade couldn\u2019t do it all on his own, as Miami (31-27, 26-32 ATS) was 2-2 for the week, maintaining fifth slot in the East, one game behind Atlanta in the loss column.<\/p>\n

Miami\u2019s come from behind 120-115 win over New York on Saturday included a 19-0 spurt that had the Heat melt a Knicks lead that eventually disappeared. Miami is only 1-8 ATS in home games after a win by six points or less this season.<\/p>\n

The Cavs are fourth in the league on the road at 20-11 (17-14 ATS) and are virtually unfazed by no rest with an 11-2 and 10-3 ATS record, winning by an astonishing 10.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Miami is 20-10 (13-17 ATS) at home and 4-5 straight-up and ATS as a home underdog. The Heat have won eight of their last nine at home against Cleveland, with five covers.<\/p>\n

Of the last 22 games played in Miami between these squads, 16 have gone Under. The Cavs are 21-9 Under in road games off a road win and the Heat are 11-2 Under versus good shooting teams making 46% or more of their shots in the second half of the season over the last two years.<\/p>\n

Power Line- Cleveland by 3<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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