{"id":4512,"date":"2009-05-30T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cavaliers-magic-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-05-30T06:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T11:35:00","slug":"cavaliers-magic-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cavaliers-magic-odds-preview-2\/","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 Cleveland Cavaliers and the Orlando Magic will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Amway 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 Magic listed as 2\u00bd-point favorites versus the Cavaliers, 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\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st2:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st1:GivenName>LeBron<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>James<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> poured in a game-high 37 points in a triple-double performance to propel the Cavaliers to a 112-102 victory over the Magic on Thursday and cut the series deficit to 3-2. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Cavaliers covered the 7.5-point spread, while the 214 points sailed OVER the posted total of 197. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:GivenName>James<\/st1:GivenName> finshed with 14 rebounds and 12 assists in that win. Mo Williams chipped in with 24 points. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Hedo<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Turkoglu<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the Magic with 29 points, and <st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Dwight<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Howard<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> had a double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds. <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 Saturday are 6-4<br \/>After playing Orlando are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Orlando most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 7-3<br \/>After playing Cleveland are 6-4<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 \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Cleveland&#8217;s last 6 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Cleveland&#8217;s last 6 games when playing Orlando<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Cleveland&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>Cleveland is 15-4 SU in its last 19 games <br \/>Orlando is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Cleveland<br \/>Orlando is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Cleveland<br \/>Orlando is 9-1 ATS in its last 10 games when playing Cleveland<br \/>Orlando is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games <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 Cleveland Cavaliers and the Orlando Magic will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Amway Arena. Oddsmakers currently have the Magic listed as 2\u00bd-point favorites versus the Cavaliers, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. LeBron James poured in a game-high 37 points in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cavaliers-magic-odds-preview-2\/\" 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-4512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512","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=4512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}