The undervalued team vs. the overvalued one! LeBron James and Cleveland have bigger games on deck to worry about than playing Philadelphia today as they play the Knicks the next game, then start a West Coast trip against mighty Golden State in a marquee shwodown this week. The Cavs are not a deep team right now with Kyrie Irving (knee) finally coming back, and Iman Shumpert (groin) and Mo Williams (thumb) not 100%. Cleveland is on a 7-14 spread run. The 76ers dropped their ninth straight game 107-97 to the New York Knicks on Friday, but managed to add a positive development earlier in the day when veteran Mike D’Antoni was named associate head coach. The former Nuggets, Suns, Knicks, and Lakers coach is one of the innovators of modern up-tempo offenses and will help Philadelphia's scoring offense. Coach Brett Brown has put in an uptempo attack and rookie Jahlil Okafor has scored 20 or more points in five of the last six contests. The Cavaliers struggled in each of the first two meetings this season against the 76ers, but won both by a total of 13 points. Undervalued Philadelphia is 13-3 ATS against the Cavs, too. Play Philadelphia.
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NBA
Philadelphia at Cleveland
December 20, 2015
3:35 PM Eastern
1 unit on Philadelphia +17 (-115) (risk 1 to return 1.87)
Result:
LOSS
LOSS
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