In what is clearly one of the more anticipated matchups of the NBA season, the league's No. 1 team – the Warriors – visit Cleveland to match up against LeBron James and the Cavaliers. These two sides met last month, when Golden State easily defeated a LeBron-less Cavs team.
Line: Cavaliers -3.5, Total: 214.5 (visit The Linemakers on Sporting News' odds page for current NBA point spreads and totals)
While AccuScore has the Cavs as slight 50.4 percent favorites to win Thursday’s night game outright, there's a 59.5 percent chance the Warriors cover a +3.5 spread.
But Cleveland is 17-2 SU in its last 19 games, and 5-0 SU in its last five games at home, and the Warriors are 1-5 ATS in their last six games on the road.
AccuScore Best Bet: With an average score after AccuScore ran its 10,000-plus simulations of 106-105, there's a 57.3 percent chance the total combined score stays UNDER 214.5, a four-star (out of four) AccuScore hot trend.
The total has stayed UNDER in five of Cleveland's last seven games at home.
The Linemakers' pick: Another opinion on Warriors-Cavs
Projected Leaders
Stephen Curry: 20 points (3-7 3PM), 7 assists, 4 rebounds, 1 steal, 3 TOs
LeBron James: 25 points, 7 assists, 6 rebounds, 2 steals, 1 block, 4 TOs
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