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Cavs head up north to battle Raptors

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02/26/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Coming off one of their most impressive performances of the season, the Cleveland Cavaliers wrap up a short road trip with tonight's clash against the Toronto Raptors from the Air Canada Centre.

The Cavaliers head to Canada after besting the Boston Celtics last night in a battle of two of the Eastern Conference's top teams, using 36 points from superstar LeBron James and a huge fourth quarter to exit TD Garden with a 108-88 victory over the Atlantic Division leaders.

Cleveland trailed by one point heading into the final period, but outscored the Celtics by a whopping 35-14 margin over the last 12 minutes to prevail. Mo Williams led the charge by scoring 14 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter as the Cavs ended a string of nine straight losses on the road to Boston.

The win was Cleveland's first at TD Garden since January 3, 2007.

"You get the monkey off your back, [but] don't look too far into it though," said James, who added nine assists and seven rebounds on the night. "We played well enough to win, but we have another game [Friday] against Toronto and we hope to play the same way."

The Cavaliers will have to play tonight without the services of Shaquille O'Neal after the veteran center sprained his right thumb in the second quarter of Thursday's triumph. The perennial All-Star had scored 20 points in each of his team's two games prior to last night.

Toronto will also be minus one of its top players this evening, with standout forward Chris Bosh slated to sit out a fourth straight contest due to a sprained ankle. The Raptors won their first two tests without their leading scorer, defeating also-rans New Jersey and Washington last week, but clearly missed Bosh's presence in Wednesday's 101-87 home loss to Portland.

The Raptors shot a mediocre 44.7 percent from the field and were held under 100 points for the first time since January 3, ending a franchise-record 20- game streak of eclipsing the century mark.

Hedo Turkoglu managed 24 points for Toronto and Jarrett Jack compiled 18 points and eight assists in the loss, only the Raptors' third in their last 14 outings.

Down 62-54 with less than 7 1/2 minutes to go in the third quarter, Toronto went on a 9-2 run and pulled within one on Amir Johnson's basket with 4:47 remaining in the period. Portland answered with a 9-0 burst shortly afterward, however, and the Raptors never got closer than seven points down the rest of the way.

"We just let them have too many easy baskets," Turkoglu said. "I don't know what their fast break points were [Wednesday], but we let them have too many easy points."

Toronto still owns a strong 21-8 record at home this season, but has dropped two of its last three tilts as the host. The Raptors did post a 101-91 victory over Cleveland at the Air Canada Centre back on October 28, although the Cavs exacted revenge with a 108-100 decision in Ohio on January 19.

Cleveland has won six of seven and 10 of the past 12 meetings between these teams and is 6-3 over its last nine visits to the Air Canada Centre.

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In terms of sports wagering, the NFL is "the most popular game in town." The explanation behind that is easy.

It is called the "pointspread."

Many years ago, NFL games, as well as the more popular college games, used straight odds as a vehicle for betting. For example, if the Bears were playing the Giants, and it shaped up as a competitive contest, the Bears might be, say, a 7/5 favorite. If they were playing an also-ran, it might be 10/1. Well, there is a point where a line becomes prohibitive, as far as betting the favorite. And who would waste money betting an underdog that has virtually no chance? Such a setup did not contribute to promoting betting action.

But in modern sports betting, a "pointspread" is used.

A NFL pointspreads are exactly that, a pre-established point difference between the two sides that will, for all intents and purposes, create a handicap that evens things out, and in doing so, produces comparable wagering activity on both sides of that proposition. So in lieu of a odds figure in which to bet the team to win outright, the Bears might be a three-point favorite over the New York Giants, and a 17-point favorite over the also-ran. Now that the team that is the underdog can "get" points, there can be equal action on both sides.

In sportsbooks, this is usually done with efficiency by charging the losing bettors 10% extra - in effect, bettors are laying 11/10 on those games. So they are actually betting $110 to win $100. If they lose, they pay the "vig." If they win, they simply collect.

The establishment of the pointspread as the corner stone around which team sports like football can be wagered upon was truly what brought gridiron betting into the stratosphere for online football betting .

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