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It’ll be the red-hot Miami Heat facing off with the Dallas Mavericks in the first of two meetings on TNT tonight.
Tip-off is scheduled for 7.30pm ET, our same-game parlay is available below!
Be sure to also check our other predictions on the side and total for Tuesday’s games.
Miami Heat -4.5 alternate spread (+124)
Luka Doncic under 7.5 rebounds (-104)
Tim Hardaway Jr. over 15.5 points (+120)
Parlay odds: +736
Miami Heat -4.5 alternate spread (+124)
When the Heat win they win convincingly. Their last 4 wins have been by 18 points, 13 points, 15 points and 26 points. They are just playing on a different level right now, their win over Memphis last time out was particularly impressive as Bam Adebayo was a late scratch and they demolished them regardless. Kyle Lowry is slowly settling into the offense and Tyler Herro is playing the best basketball of his young NBA career. Against Dallas they’ve been pretty good lately winning 16 of the last 20 meetings and with the news of Maxi Kleber and Kristaps Porzingis missing this one out, the Mavericks could have serious depth issues against a loaded Miami team.
Read our full game predictions for Miami Heat vs Dallas Mavericks here!
Luka Doncic under 7.5 rebounds (-104)
Miami leads the league in field goal percentage, and in opponent total rebounds at 48.7 per game. Miami’s opponents also average the 3rd lowest amount of defensive rebounds per game at 32.5, so it’ll be difficult to get production on the glass from anyone, including Doncic. Luka has gone under his rebounding total in two of the past three games, so there’s value in backing this bet tonight.
Tim Hardaway Jr. over 15.5 points (+120)
Although the Mavs haven’t impressed on the offensive end so far this season, the points will have to come from somewhere. With Kleber and Porzingis not playing that’s almost 20 points per game taken out of the equation, so somebody is going to have to step up. That somebody is Tim Hardaway Jr., who is second in scoring on his team and is known to get hot from time to time. After a couple of rough games in which he scored 6 and 3 points, he has bounced back with a 16-point performance against the Sacramento Kings last time out. In his last 7 games (pre-season included) he has gone over 15.5 in 4 of them. With the Miami defense focused on stopping Luka, I think Hardaway steps up with a decent performance tonight.
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