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NBA Playoff Betting Preview SBG Global Opening Line: Wizards – 4, Total 187.5 The Washington Wizards finally stopped talking and started playing on Wednesday and it resulted in a win on the road against the Cleveland Cavaliers. If Washington can win at home on Friday they would force a game 7 back in Cleveland on Sunday. “We just said, ‘It’s time to stop all the talking.’ A lot of guys were trying to defend themselves as far as this and that. But it wasn’t working,” Washington’s Antawn Jamison said, “We said: ‘the ultimate change around is for us to just be quiet and find a way to come back from 3-1 and win the series.’ I think they finally got it.” The Wizards were without guard Gilbert Arenas on Wednesday but they may be better off without him. They played more as a team and Caron Butler ended up hitting the winning shot in the 88-87 win. “Caron wants an opportunity to lead a team,” guard Roger Mason Jr. said. “He willed us to that victory yesterday. His personality was on the floor, and I think it’s good for us.” Butler had 32 points, nine rebounds and five assists in the Game five victory. Butler outplayed Cleveland’s LeBron James on Wednesday as James missed what would have been the winning shot. The Cavaliers will try and get some help for LeBron on Friday. James is averaging 30.4 points, 8.8 rebounds and 6.6 assists in the series. SBG Global Current Line: Wizards – 4, Total 187.5 Here are the NBA betting stats for Friday’s game. The Cavaliers are 5-2 ATS in their last 7 Conference Quarterfinals games. The Cavaliers are 13-6 ATS in their last 19 playoff games as an underdog. The Cavaliers are 2-8 ATS in their last 10 Friday games. The Wizards are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 home games. The Wizards are 10-4 ATS in their last 14 Friday games. The Wizards are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 Conference Quarterfinals games. The Under is 4-0 in the Cavaliers last 4 Friday games. The Under is 5-1 in the Cavaliers last 6 games as an underdog. The Under is 9-2 in the Cavaliers last 11 overall. The Under is 14-4 in the Cavaliers last 18 playoff games as an underdog. The Over is 14-3 in the Wizards last 17 home games. The Over is 4-1 in the Wizards last 5 Friday games. The Over is 7-3 in the last 10 meetings in Washington between the two teams. Pick: Should be another close game, be safe and take the over 3 units
Cleveland Cavaliers at Washington Wizards (Cavs lead 3-2)
Friday, 7:05 pm Eastern – ESPN 2
SBG Global reports that early NBA betting has the public taking Cavaliers on the Road.
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NBA Playoff Betting Preview SBG Global Opening Line: Cavaliers – 4.5, Total 192 The Cleveland Cavaliers will try and put away the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night and end the war of words. For some reason the Wizards have talked a lot of trash in the series but all it has done is motivate LeBron James to play even better. James has averaged 29.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 6.5 assists in the series. SBG Global reports that early NBA betting has the public taking Cavaliers at Home. James knows Wednesday’s game won’t be easy but he is confident. “I just have confidence in our team,” he said. “It has nothing to do with the Wizards. They’re a very good team, but they’ve got to beat us three straight games and I can’t see that happening.” The Wizards would do a lot better to keep their mouths shut and play basketball rather than antagonize one of the best players in the NBA. “I’ve never seen a series like this where you have music involved, you have trash talk involved, everything,” said Cavaliers forward Joe Smith, “I guess that’s the way the sport has grown and when you have a rivalry like this, there’s no telling what you might find.” At least one player on the Wizards is tired of his teammates running their mouth. Antawn Jamison has had enough. “All this talking throughout the media, about this and that, is really beneath me,” he said. “And I’m kind of disappointed that my team has kind of bought into it. But it’s just about going out there and playing the game. They’ve been doing that, they’re up 3-1, so they can say what they want to say.” SBG Global Current Line: Cavaliers – 4.5, Total 192 Here are the NBA betting stats for Wednesday’s game. The Wizards are 3-8 ATS in their last 11 Wednesday games. The Wizards are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games overall. The Wizards are 1-5 ATS in their last 6 Conference Quarterfinals games. The Wizards are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 playoff games as an underdog. The Wizards are 1-4 ATS in the last 5 meetings between the two teams. The Cavaliers are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 playoff games as a favorite. The Cavaliers are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 Conference Quarterfinals games. The favorite is 7-3 ATS in the last 10 meetings between the two teams. The Under is 4-1 in the Wizards last 5 games as a road underdog. The Over is 23-9 in the Wizards last 32 vs. the Eastern Conference. The Under is 5-1 in the Cavaliers last 6 games as a favorite. The Under is 8-2 in the Cavaliers last 10 overall. The Under is 16-5 in the Cavaliers last 21 home games. The Under is 15-7 in the last 22 meetings in Cleveland between the two teams. Pick: Take the Cavs at home to end it! 4units
Washington Wizards at Cleveland Cavaliers (Cavs lead 3-1)
Wednesday, 6:05 pm Eastern – TNT
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NBA Playoff Betting Preview Cleveland Cavaliers at Washington Wizards (Cavs lead 2-1) Sunday, 1:00 pm Eastern – ABC The Washington Wizards are back in their series against the Cleveland Cavaliers after routing them 108-72 on Thursday. They will try and even the best of seven series on Sunday. Thursday’s win by Washington was big in a number of ways. The 36-point playoff win was the biggest in Wizards’ history and ended the Cavaliers’ eight game playoff winning streak against them. “The Wizards scored easy baskets in their transition, whether it was off turnovers or flat out beating us down the floor,” said Cleveland head coach Mike Brown. “Those are things we cannot allow if we expect to win on the road.” Check out the current line for this game at SBG Global. LeBron James led the Cavaliers with 22 points on Thursday but that is nothing compared to what he usually doe. “Well, we definitely didn’t play well tonight,” said James. “We can’t carry this over to Game Four. They completely dominated us tonight on both ends – they executed, they shot the ball well, they defended us well. We know Sunday we can’t come out and play like this.” The Wizards had five players in double-figures, led by DeShawn Stevenson who had 19 points. Roger Mason had 18 points, Caron Butler added 17, Antawn Jamison finished with 15 and Brendan Haywood added 14. NBA betting at SBG Global. The Cavaliers know they must play much better on Sunday. “One thing we have to do is continue to take shots and make our shots. They did a good job shrinking the floor and making some of my guys step up and take shots and we need to start knocking those down.” LeBron said, “The lane is going to open up and we need to get Z more touches. We didn’t get him enough touches tonight. That really hurt us. I wasn’t as aggressive as I can be. I need to get better and be a better player on Sunday.” The problem for the Cavaliers is that they are not a very good road team. They were 18-23 straight up this season on the road and are now 0-1 in the playoffs. Washington was a good home team going 25-16 straight up and 22-19 ATS during the regular season and is now 1-0 in the playoffs at home. Pick Wizards 4 units
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NBA Playoff Betting Preview SBG Global Opening Line: Wizards - 5, Total 189.5 The Cleveland Cavaliers will try and take a commanding lead in their series against the Washington Wizards on Thursday. The Cavaliers did as expected at home, winning the first two games. Now it will be up to Washington to answer. The series has been very physical so far and that may not change on Thursday. “I don’t expect anything to change,” Wizards forward Antawn Jamison said, “We’re going to continue to play hard and continue to protect our rim.” SBG Global reports that early NBA betting has the public taking Wizards at Home. The Cavaliers have been taking the Wizards’ best punch and bouncing back. “I think the referees will be a little whistle-happy probably,” Washington’s Brendan Haywood said. The Wizards are trying to end an eight-game playoff losing streak to Cleveland. Washington must get better play out of their stars. So far, Jamison, Caron Butler and Gilbert Arenas have done very little against the Cavaliers. “Offensively, we look horrible,” Jamison said, “not disciplined enough to make them play defense at all. Game 2, I think we tried to do too much on our own.” SBG Global Current Line: Wizards - 5, Total 189.5 Here are the NBA betting stats for Thursday’s game. The Cavaliers are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 Conference Quarterfinals games. The Cavaliers are 12-5 ATS in their last 17 playoff games as an underdog. The Cavaliers are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 Thursday games. The Cavaliers are 4-1 ATS in the last 5 meetings between the two teams. The Wizards are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games as a home favorite. The Wizards are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 Conference Quarterfinals games. The favorite is 6-2 ATS in the last 8 meetings between the two teams. The Under is 4-0 in the Cavaliers last 4 games as an underdog. The Under is 7-1 in the Cavaliers last 8 overall. The Under is 7-1 in the Cavaliers last 8 vs. the Eastern Conference. The Under is 13-3 in the Cavaliers last 16 playoff games as an underdog. The Over is 4-1 in the Cavaliers last 5 Thursday games. The Under is 5-2 in the Cavaliers last 7 vs. the Southeast. The Under is 12-5 in the Cavaliers last 17 games as a road underdog.
The Over is 11-0 in the Wizards last 11 games as a home favorite. The Over is 13-3 in the Wizards last 16 home games. The Over is 6-2 in the Wizards last 8 Thursday games. The Over is 22-8 in the Wizards last 30 vs. the Eastern Conference. The Over is 9-4 in the Wizards last 13 overall. The Over is 6-2 in the last 8 meetings in Washington between the two teams. Lebron has something to prove in this one, Take the Cavs 4 units out of 5.
Cleveland Cavaliers at Washington Wizards (Cavs lead 2-0)
Thursday, 8:05 pm Eastern – TNT
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