The 3-9 Cleveland Cavaliers will travel to face the 9-3 Miami Heat in an NBA pro basketball game on Saturday night. Tip time from Miami is set for 7:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by the NBA League Pass Channel.
The NBA odds from this game has the home team Miami Heat favored by -14 ½ points with an over under line of 195 ½ points. When the odds came out a few hours ago it was Miami favored by -14 ½ points and the total at 195 points. We have seen no movement on the side but a ½ point move on the over.
In the lockout shortened season a year ago the Heat won all three against Cleveland and covered the spread in two of the teams. All three games went under the total. Trend: The under is 4-0 in their past four head to head meetings.
Cleveland entered Wednesday’s game with Philadelphia with a six game losing streak. They break it by beating the offensively challenged 76ers 92-83 as a +4 ½ point underdog. The Cavs will be without rookie of the year Kyrie Irving who has a broken index finger and is out for at least a month. Cleveland is bad defensively allowing opponents nearly 49% shooting and 101 points a game.
The Heat is a perfect 5-0 straight up at home and the number one offense in the NBA hitting 49% from the field and averaging 104 points a game. Since a loss at the Clippers on November 14th, the Heat has strung three straight wins. They are a scoring machine at home this season averaging nearly 116 points a game. Miami feasts on bad defensive teams and Cleveland is bad on defense. Lebron James leads the team with nearly 25 points a game and 52% shooting.