{"id":4488,"date":"2009-05-26T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cavaliers-magic-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-26T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T11:30:00","slug":"cavaliers-magic-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cavaliers-magic-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers-Magic Odds 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 fans at Amway Arena will be treated to a game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Orlando Magic when they take their seats on Tuesday night for the fourth game of the Eastern Conference Finals. <?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 Cavaliers listed as 1\u00bd-point favorites versus the Magic, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Magic defeated Cleveland 99-89 as a 1.5-point home favorite in Game 3 on Sunday. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (189). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st2:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st1:GivenName>Dwight<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Howard<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> scored 24 points and grabbed nine rebounds for <st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> and <st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Hedo<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Turkoglu<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> had 13 points, 10 rebounds, and seven assists. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>LeBron<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>James<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> scored a game-high 41 points to go along with seven rebounds and nine assists for <st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, while Mo Williams had 15 points in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 66-16 SU, 49-33 ATS <br \/>Orlando: 59-23 SU, 49-32-1 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Cleveland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Orlando are 5-5<br \/>After playing Orlando are 7-3<br \/>After a loss are 8-2<\/p>\n<p>Orlando most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing Cleveland are 6-4<br \/>After playing Cleveland are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 5-5<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 5 of Cleveland&#8217;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>Cleveland is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games on the road<br \/>Cleveland is 14-3 SU in its last 17 games <br \/>Cleveland is 11-4 ATS in its last 15 games <br \/>Orlando is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games <br \/>Orlando is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Cleveland<br \/>Orlando is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing at home against Cleveland<br \/>Orlando is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Cleveland<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> home to <st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Thursday, May 28<br \/><st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> at <st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Thursday, May 28<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<\/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 fans at Amway Arena will be treated to a game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Orlando Magic when they take their seats on Tuesday night for the fourth game of the Eastern Conference Finals. Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 1\u00bd-point favorites versus the Magic, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cavaliers-magic-odds-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cavaliers-Magic 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-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","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=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}