{"id":3250,"date":"2009-01-07T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/heat-nuggets-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T20:47:00","slug":"heat-nuggets-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/heat-nuggets-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat-Nuggets Lines 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 Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Pepsi<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <?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 Nuggets listed as 5\u00bd-point favorites versus the Heat, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 199. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Dwyane Wade had 24 points, 12 assists, and four steals for <st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in its 91-84 loss to <st1:City><st1:place>San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> on Monday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> covered as 3.5-point road favorites as the game played under the 180-point total listed by oddsmakers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Kenyon Martin dropped 25 points and hauled down seven rebounds, as the Nuggets slammed the Pacers 135-115 on Monday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> covered as 8-point home favorites as the teams played over the 221-point total listed 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 4 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>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 18-15 SU, 14-18-1 ATS <br \/>Denver: 24-12 SU, 20-15-1 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Miami most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Sacramento are 6-4<br \/>After playing San Antonio are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Denver most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Detroit are 3-7<br \/>After playing Indiana are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Miami&#8217;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Miami&#8217;s last 12 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Miami&#8217;s last 8 games when playing Denver<br \/>Miami is 9-4 ATS in its last 13 games when playing on the road against Denver<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Denver&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>Denver is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Miami<br \/>Denver is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Miami<br \/>Denver is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>Sacramento<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, January 9<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, January 9<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<div>&nbsp;<\/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 Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at Pepsi Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Nuggets listed as 5\u00bd-point favorites versus the Heat, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 199. Dwyane Wade had 24 points, 12 assists, and four steals for Miami in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/heat-nuggets-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heat-Nuggets Lines 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-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","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=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}