{"id":2884,"date":"2008-12-03T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/knicks-cavaliers-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-03T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T13:25:00","slug":"knicks-cavaliers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/knicks-cavaliers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks-Cavaliers Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The New York Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Quicken Loans Arena. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 14\u00bd-point favorites versus the Knicks, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chris Duhon led New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> with 23 points and 13 assists in its 104-97 loss to Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The game resulted in a push with Portland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> as 7-point road favorites, as the teams played under the 212-point total listed by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
LeBron James netted a game-high 32 points as the Cavaliers defeated the Bucks 97-85 on Saturday. The Cavaliers managed to cover the 7-point spread, but the 182 points fell UNDER the posted total of 195. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Zydrunas Ilgauskas shot 11-for-17 from the field with 23 points and 17 rebounds. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 5 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 8-9 SU, 7-9-1<\/st1:date> ATS
Cleveland: 14-3 SU, 13-4 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 3-7
Before playing Atlanta are 6-4
After playing Portland are 1-9
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 7-3
Before playing Indiana are 5-5
After playing Milwaukee are 6-4
After a win are 9-1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of New York’s last 5 games when playing Cleveland
New York is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of New York’s last 7 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
New York is 8-4 ATS in its last 12 games when playing Cleveland
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Cleveland is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Cleveland is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, December 5
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, December 5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The New York Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Quicken Loans Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 14\u00bd-point favorites versus the Knicks, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Chris Duhon led New York with 23 points … Continue reading Knicks-Cavaliers Preview<\/span> →<\/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-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","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=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}