{"id":4500,"date":"2009-05-28T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/magic-cavaliers-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-05-28T06:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T11:41:00","slug":"magic-cavaliers-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/magic-cavaliers-odds-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic-Cavaliers 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 Orlando Magic and the Cleveland Cavaliers will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Quicken Loans Arena. <?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 7\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 took a commanding 3-1 lead in the series with a 116-114 overtime victory over the Cavaliers on Tuesday night in Game 4. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Magic won that game as a slight 1.5-point underdog, while the combined score sailed OVER the posted total of 188. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Dwight Howard led the Magic with 27 points and 14 rebounds, while Rafer Alston added 26 points in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">LeBron James netted a game-high 44 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for a double-double in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st1:Sn><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st2:City><st2:place>Orlando<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 59-23 SU, 49-32-1 ATS <br \/>Cleveland: 66-16 SU, 49-33 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Orlando most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 7-3<br \/>After playing Cleveland are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 5-5<br \/>After playing Orlando are 7-3<br \/>After a loss are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Orlando is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Cleveland<br \/>Orlando is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games <br \/>Orlando is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Cleveland<br \/>Orlando is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>Cleveland is 21-2 SU in its last 23 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Cleveland&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Orlando<br \/>Cleveland is 14-4 SU in its last 18 games <br \/>Cleveland is 6-2 ATS in its last 8 games at home<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 Orlando Magic and the Cleveland Cavaliers will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Quicken Loans Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 7\u00bd-point favorites versus the Magic, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Magic took a commanding 3-1 lead in the series with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/magic-cavaliers-odds-preview-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Magic-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-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","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=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}