{"id":9607,"date":"2010-11-30T19:38:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T19:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=9607"},"modified":"2010-11-30T19:38:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T19:38:06","slug":"nba-free-picks-sports-handicapper-likes-cavs-over-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/nba-free-picks-sports-handicapper-likes-cavs-over-celtics\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Free Picks: Sports Handicapper Likes Cavs Over Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Rivers says the free pick<\/a> winner for Tuesday is on the Cleveland Cavaliers getting seven at home to Boston.<\/p>\n

After losing Lebron things are obviously not going to be as good for this Cleveland organization. The team as a whole would be very lucky to\u00a0be around that .500 mark when all is said and done as King James was the bulk of the team but the Cavs have been better than expected and are worth a shot today.<\/p>\n

In the home opener these same Celtics\u00a0came a calling as a similar favorite and lost. Yes that\u00a0game was on a back-to back after the opening night victory over\u00a0James and the Heat and yes Doc\u2019s squad therefore has a measure of revenge tonight\u00a0but Mo Williams, Antawn Jamison, J.J. Hickson\u00a0and the rest of the fellas have won and covered three in a row at home and should be able to once again get\u00a0up for the C\u2019s.<\/p>\n

In terms of sheer talent it\u2019s not even close as Boston is by far the superior\u00a0team with stars in Pierce, Rondo, Garnett and Allen along with a high quality bench. But the road is never easy and can offset the superior team which I really think may\u00a0be the result here.<\/p>\n

It is asking a lot to once again believe that Cleveland will hang around in this thing but the Cavs are at home and have been\u00a0pretty good there of late. Add in a little confidence from the opening victory against the men in green and the recent run of success on their home floor and this home dog is good enough for me.<\/p>\n

The pick: Cleveland +7 against the NBA spread<\/a><\/p>\n

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Matt Rivers says the free pick winner for Tuesday is on the Cleveland Cavaliers getting seven at home to Boston. After losing Lebron things are obviously not going to be as good for this Cleveland organization. The team as a whole would be very lucky to\u00a0be around that .500 mark when all is said and … Continue reading NBA Free Picks: Sports Handicapper Likes Cavs Over Celtics<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607","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=9607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9609,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions\/9609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}