{"id":3486,"date":"2009-02-08T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/official-betting-preview-of-lakers-cavaliers-and-spurs-celtics\/"},"modified":"2009-02-08T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T15:14:00","slug":"official-betting-preview-of-lakers-cavaliers-and-spurs-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/official-betting-preview-of-lakers-cavaliers-and-spurs-celtics\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Betting Preview of Lakers-Cavaliers and Spurs-Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Two of the best regular season games of the year in the NBA are on ABC today. The San Antonio Spurs are at the Boston Celtics. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodoglife.com\/welcome\/1861245\/sportsbook\"><span class=SpellE>Bodog<\/span> Life<\/a> has <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> laying seven with a total of 186. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>That&#8217;s followed by the LA Lakers at the Cleveland Cavaliers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookmaker.com\/?cmpid=5999_828\">Bookmaker<\/a> has <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> posted at -4.5 with a total of 206. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:City><st1:place><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span   style='font-size:12.0pt'>San Antonio<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> comes in 4-1 straight up and 4-0-1 against the spread in their last five. As Bob Warner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lines-maker.com\/\">Lines-Maker.com<\/a> points out the home teams generally do well in the NBA because when a much more rested team plays a tired squad, the schedule usually benefits the home team. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>However this is <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>&#8217;s third game in four nights while the Spurs have had four days between games. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>While <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 12-of-13 straight up, they&#8217;ve dropped 3-of-4 to the number. They are 10-2 against the spread to the Southwest Division. <st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is also 7-1 their last eight off a straight up win. <st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has gone under 8-1 to an opponent winning percentage of .600 or greater. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best of all, not only is it a great day to watch sports, it&#8217;s a better day to wager on them. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Last night GodsTips suffered an excruciating overtime loss 4.5 point underdog Milwaukee loses by five in overtime. We settle for 8-4 go to 15-6 with Wise Guy plays. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>As our sundry clients who go back with us decades know, we never force plays on marquee games just to make a sale. Today is a rare, very rare case of which we have Wise Guy plays on both the Spurs-Celtics and Lakers-Cavs. Wise Guy plays from Joe Duffy&#8217;s GodsTips are widely accepted by high rollers, bookmakers, linesmakers, and fellow handicappers as the biggest play in the handicapping abyss. This is just fact. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><span class=GramE><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It&#8217;s<\/span><\/font><\/span> six winners in all plus any steam <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Packages\">Click now to purchase<\/a> the top handicapper GodsTips for just $17. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Lakers take on the Cavs in the second game. The Lakers are on a <\/span><\/font><st1:date Month=\"9\" Day=\"3\" Year=\"2001\">9-3-1<\/st1:date> spread run having gone over six straight and 8-of-9. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Cavaliers perfect 23-0 straight up home mark gets a serious test.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>They are 18-5 to the Vegas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbooks<\/a> at home as well. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Some betting <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>intel<\/span><\/span>: the Lakers are a perfect 7-0 after scoring 100 or more last game and are 23-9 as an underdog. <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 7-0 at home versus an opponent winning road record. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The <\/span><\/font><st1:place><st1:PlaceType>Lake<\/st1:PlaceType>  <st1:PlaceName>Show<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place> has gone over eight straight road games and over 22-8 off a win. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\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>Two of the best regular season games of the year in the NBA are on ABC today. The San Antonio Spurs are at the Boston Celtics. Bodog Life has Boston laying seven with a total of 186. That&#8217;s followed by the LA Lakers at the Cleveland Cavaliers. Bookmaker has Cleveland posted at -4.5 with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/official-betting-preview-of-lakers-cavaliers-and-spurs-celtics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Official Betting Preview of Lakers-Cavaliers and Spurs-Celtics<\/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-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","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=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}