{"id":3484,"date":"2009-02-08T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/lakers-cavaliers-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-02-08T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T14:51:00","slug":"lakers-cavaliers-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/lakers-cavaliers-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers-Cavaliers Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Los Angeles Lakers and the Cleveland Cavaliers will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Quicken Loans Arena. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 5-point favorites versus the Lakers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kobe Bryant dropped a game-high 26 points with 10 rebounds for a double-double on Thursday, as the Lakers got past the Celtics 110-109. The Lakers won the game as a 7-point underdog, while the 219 points sailed OVER the night’s posted total of 206. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pau Gasol had 24 points and 14 rebounds in a double-double performance for the Lakers, while Lyle<\/st1:GivenName> Odom<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> added 20 points with six rebounds. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
LeBron<\/st1:GivenName> James<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> dropped a game-high 52 points, hauled down 10 rebounds and dished out 11 assists for a triple-double to lead the Cavaliers to a hard-fought 107-102 victory over the Knicks on Wednesday. The Cavaliers failed to cover the 6-point spread, but the game’s 209 points made it OVER the posted total of 208.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Zydrunas<\/st1:GivenName> Ilgauskas<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> chipped in with 15 points, and Wally<\/st1:GivenName> Szczerbiak<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> collected 13 rebounds. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Los Angeles<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> has won 5 straight games.
Cleveland<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> has won 4 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Los Angeles<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>: 40-9 SU, 25-23-1 ATS
Cleveland: 39-9 SU, 32-16 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Los Angeles most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 5-5
Before playing Oklahoma City are 6-4
After playing Boston are 5-5
After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of the LA Lakers last 5 games
LA Lakers are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games
LA Lakers are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of the LA Lakers last 5 games on the road
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Cleveland is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games
Cleveland is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Cleveland’s last 7 games when playing at home against LA Lakers<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
LA Lakers home to Oklahoma<\/st2:place><\/st2:State> City, Tuesday, February 10
Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> at Indiana<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn>, Tuesday, February 10<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Los Angeles Lakers and the Cleveland Cavaliers will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Quicken Loans Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 5-point favorites versus the Lakers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Kobe Bryant dropped a game-high 26 points with 10 rebounds … Continue reading Lakers-Cavaliers Lines 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-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","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=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}