NBA Picks: Heat vs. Cavaliers, Suns vs. Lakers, Seattle at Portland

The NBA picks, including lines and point spread, for the Christmas games Miami Heat vs. Cleveland Cavaliers, Phoenix Suns vs. Los Angeles Lakers, Seattle SuperSonics vs. Portland Trail Blazers.

NBA Picks: Heat vs. Cavaliers, Suns vs. Lakers, Seattle at Portland You can always count on the NBA to entertain their fans and tonight will be no different with three basketball games lined up for Christmas. Let's look at the picks the odds makers did on today's NBA games, starting with the NBA game between Miami Heat (8-19) and Cleveland Cavaliers (12-16). At the online sportsbook Bookmaker (opens new window), the Cavaliers will be once again the favorite team, when they face off the Heat at home. The betting line on the Cleveland Cavaliers is sitting at -200 and the line on the Miami Heat is +170 at the bookie. The point spread on the Miami Heat vs. Cleveland Cavaliers NBA game tonight is listed at -5 points chalk the Cavaliers with the total set at 191.5 points. Keep in mind that Miami is 1-5 against the spread in its last 6 games and has lost 9 out of its last 13 games. Also, Miami Heat has the third worst rebounds in the league at 39.5. Cleveland is 1-5 against the spread in its last 6 games and has lost 10 of its last 13 games. The total has gone UNDER in 14 of Cleveland's last 21 games when playing at home against Miami.

Moving on to the Phoenix Suns (19-8) and their visit to the Los Angeles Lakers (17-10) on Tuesday. Two very good NBA teams will play at the Staples Center, but the guys at Bookmaker think that the Suns will do better job tonight and have Phoenix as their favorite pick, just like the bettor, who also picks the Suns to win the game, making this NBA matchup the third most bet on event this week. The betting line on the Phoenix Suns is listed at -150 and the line on the Lakers is +130. The point spread on the Phoenix Suns vs. los Angeles Lakers game is currently favoring the Suns -3 points with total at 221 points. Phoenix is 2-5 against the spread in their last 7 games when playing LA Lakers and have won 9 out of the last 13 games. The Phoenix Suns are also the highest scoring team in the league at 109.5 points per game and lead the league in field goal percentage with 49.4. LA Lakers are 7-3 against the spread in their last 10 games and have won 4 of the last 5 games, but lost 7 of their last 9 games against Phoenix. Also, Los Angeles leads the league in rebounds at 45.0. The total has gone OVER in 4 of the LA Lakers last 5 games when playing at home against Phoenix.

And finally the Seattle SuperSonics (8-19) will close today's NBA matchups with a game against the Portland Trail Blazers (15-12). Naturally the Trail Blazers are listed among the NBA favorite picks, with betting line on beating the SuperSonics of -360. The Seattle SuperSonics are listed with line on winning the game of +300. At Bookmaker the point spread on the Seattle SuperSonics vs. Portland Trail Blazers is sitting at -7.5 points chalk Portland with the total set at 198.5 points. Seattle is 6-3 against the spread in its last 9 games, but has lost 13 of the last 17 games on the road, however, the SuperSonics have won 8 of the last 11 games against the Trail Blazers. Seattle has given up the second most points in the league at 105.7 per game and allows the third most three points made in the league with 7.4 per game. Meanwhile Portland is 9-1 against the spread in its last 10 games and has won 5 of the last 5 games. Portland, however, has the worst rebounds in the league 39.0, but the total has gone OVER in 5 of Portland's last 7 games when playing at home against Seattle.

Published on 12/25/2007