{"id":3799,"date":"2009-03-15T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/knicks-cavaliers-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-15T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T16:12:00","slug":"knicks-cavaliers-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/knicks-cavaliers-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks-Cavaliers Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Quicken Loans Arena. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 10&#189;-point favorites versus the Knicks, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 211. <br \/>Nate Robinson had 25 points, seven assists, and six rebounds to lead the Knicks over the Timberwolves 102-94 on Friday night. <br \/>New York covered as 4.5-point road favorites as the game played under the 218-point total posted by sportsbooks. <br \/>LeBron James scored 51 points and dished out nine assists to lift the Cavaliers over the Kings 126-123 in overtime on Friday night. <br \/>Cleveland failed to cover as 10.5-point road favorites as the teams played over the 198.5-point total listed by oddsmakers. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>New York has won 3 straight games.<br \/>Cleveland has won 4 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>New York: 28-37 SU, 37-27-1 ATS <br \/>Cleveland: 52-13 SU, 41-24 ATS <br \/>New York most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing New Jersey are 2-8<br \/>After playing Minnesota are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing Orlando are 6-4<br \/>After playing Sacramento are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 8-2<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of New York&#39;s last 7 games when playing Cleveland<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 17 of New York&#39;s last 21 games <br \/>New York is 4-0-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of New York&#39;s last 8 games when playing on the road against Cleveland<br \/>Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>Cleveland is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Cleveland&#39;s last 7 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Cleveland&#39;s last 7 games when playing New York<br \/>Next up:<br \/>New York home to New Jersey, Wednesday, March 18<br \/>Cleveland home to Orlando, Tuesday, March 17<\/p>\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 New York Knicks 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 10&#189;-point favorites versus the Knicks, while the game&#39;s total is sitting at 211. Nate Robinson had 25 points, seven assists, and six rebounds to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/knicks-cavaliers-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Knicks-Cavaliers Odds 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-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","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=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}