Denver Nuggets vs. Cleveland Cavaliers odds, tips and betting trends
The Denver Nuggets (9-3) will visit the Cleveland Cavaliers (6-6) after dropping three consecutive road games. It starts at 6:00 PM ET on Sunday, November 19, 2023.
The Nuggets head into their game as a 2.5-point favorite against the Cavaliers. The game’s point total is set at 216.5.
Nuggets vs. Cavaliers Betting Odds
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- Spread: Denver -2.5
- Total: 216.5
- Moneyline: Denver -146, Cleveland +123
- Pick ATS: Cavaliers (+ 2.5)
- Pick OU:
Over (216.5)
- Prediction:
Nuggets 111 – Cavaliers 110
- Denver has come away with nine wins in the 12 contests it has been listed as the favorite this season.
- This season, Denver has come away with a win nine times in 11 chances when named as a favorite of at least -146 or shorter on the moneyline.
- Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that Denver has a 59.3% chance of pulling out a win.
- Cleveland has won 40% of the games this season it was the moneyline underdog (2-3).
- Cleveland has gone 2-1 in games it has played as a moneyline underdog with odds of +123 or longer (66.7%).
- Cleveland has an implied moneyline win probability of 44.8% in this contest.
- The Nuggets score only 2.9 more points per game (114.1) than the Cavaliers allow (111.2).
- Denver is 5-0 against the spread and 5-0 overall when scoring more than 111.2 points.
- When it scores more than 107 points, Cleveland is 3-5-1 against the spread and 5-4 overall.
- Denver is 3-6 against the spread and 7-2 overall when it gives up fewer than 110.3 points.
- The Nuggets are the NBA’s 12th-ranked scoring team (114.1 PPG), while the Cavaliers rank 10th in points per game allowed (111.2) in the league.
- Cleveland’s squad is currently the 22nd-ranked scoring team in the NBA (110.3 PPG), while Denver’s team is sixth in points allowed per game (107).
- The Nuggets have out-scored their opponents by a total of 85 points this season (7.1 points per game on average), and opponents of the Cavaliers have out-scored them by only 10 more points on the year (0.9 per game).
- Denver’s average implied point total this year is 4.7 more points than its implied total in Sunday’s game (114.7 implied points on average compared to 110 implied points in this game).
- So far this season, Denver has scored more than 110 points in eight games.
- The 112.5-point average implied total on the season for Cleveland is 5.5 more points than the team’s 107-point implied total in this matchup.
- Game Day: Sunday, November 19, 2023
- Game Time: 6:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: BSOH and ALT
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio
- Arena: Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse
- TV Channel: Bally Sports
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