{"id":3952,"date":"2009-03-22T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/cavaliers-nets-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-22T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T13:06:00","slug":"cavaliers-nets-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/cavaliers-nets-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers-Nets Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers and the New Jersey Nets will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Izod Center. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 6&#189;-point favorites versus the Nets, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>LeBron James had 22 points, seven rebounds and five assists and Cleveland held off a late rally to defeat Atlanta 102-96 on Saturday afternoon. <br \/>The Cavs failed to cover the 8-point spread, while the final score played OVER the day&#39;s posted total of 185.5. <br \/>Jarvis Hayes and Chris Douglas-Roberts had 18 points apiece off the bench to lead the Nets past the Heat 96-88 on Friday night. <br \/>New Jersey covered as 1.5-point home favorites as the teams played under the 197-point total listed by oddsmakers. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Cleveland has won 8 straight games.<br \/>New Jersey has won 2 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Cleveland: 56-13 SU, 41-28 ATS <br \/>New Jersey: 30-39 SU, 36-32-1 ATS <br \/>Cleveland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing New Jersey are 6-4<br \/>After playing Atlanta are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 9-1<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Cleveland are 4-6<br \/>After playing Miami are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 5-5<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Cleveland is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Cleveland&#39;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Cleveland&#39;s last 9 games when playing New Jersey<br \/>New Jersey is 5-0-1 ATS in its last 6 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of New Jersey&#39;s last 9 games when playing Cleveland<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 13 of New Jersey&#39;s last 17 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of New Jersey&#39;s last 8 games at home<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Cleveland home to New Jersey, Wednesday, March 25<br \/>New Jersey at Cleveland, Wednesday, March 25<\/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 Cleveland Cavaliers and the New Jersey Nets will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Izod Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 6&#189;-point favorites versus the Nets, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. LeBron James had 22 points, seven rebounds and five assists and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/cavaliers-nets-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cavaliers-Nets 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-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","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=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}