{"id":2649,"date":"2008-11-13T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/nuggets-cavaliers-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T12:29:00","slug":"nuggets-cavaliers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/nuggets-cavaliers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets-Cavaliers Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Denver Nuggets and the Cleveland Cavaliers will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Quicken Loans Arena. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 5\u00bd-point favorites versus the Nuggets, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Carmelo Anthony had 25 points and six rebounds to lead the Nuggets past the Bobcats 88-80 on Tuesday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> covered as 3-point road favorites as the game played under the 194-point total posted by oddsmakers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">LeBron James dropped 41 points and handed out six assists to lift the Cavaliers over the Bucks 99-93 on Tuesday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> couldn&#8217;t cover as 11.5-point home favorites as the teams played under the 192-point total set by sportsbooks. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 5 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 4-3 SU, 6-1 ATS <br \/>Cleveland: 6-2 SU, 5-3 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Denver most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing Boston are 3-7<br \/>After playing Charlotte are 5-3<br \/>After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing Utah are 6-4<br \/>After playing Milwaukee are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 5-5<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Denver is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Cleveland<br \/>Denver is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games <br \/>Denver is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Cleveland<br \/>Denver is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Cleveland<br \/>Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Cleveland&#8217;s last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cleveland&#8217;s last 5 games when playing at home against Denver<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, November 14<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, November 15<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver Nuggets and the Cleveland Cavaliers will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Quicken Loans Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 5\u00bd-point favorites versus the Nuggets, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. Carmelo Anthony had 25 points and six rebounds to lead the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/nuggets-cavaliers-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nuggets-Cavaliers Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}