A possible NBA Finals battle takes place tonight at the Miami Heat travels to face the Dallas Mavericks. Dallas has won a season high twelve games in a row, But Miami is also playing solid basketball and heat their games stand 11.4 SU last fifteen years.

The game features a couple of teams up late Chicago travels to Sacramento and beyond impressive road win in Denver last night, while the Kings have won three of their last four games with Ron Artest in alignment.

Below is a look at the two battles of national television Thursday night.

Miami at Dallas (-4 Â ½, 198 ½) (TNT)

The Mavericks are the hottest team in the NBA and currently has the longest winning streak of any team this season. The Mavericks enter this game a perfect 12-0 SU and 10-2 ATS run and Dallas has a couple of easy home victories over Seattle and the Lakers in the Mavericks held 21 and 20 point leads.

Dallas is again one of the best offensive teams in the league, and that average 99.8 points and 46.2% FG (versus opponents that allow just 96.1 points per game and 44.9% FG). However, Dallas' biggest improvement has come from the defensive side of the ball so that the Mavericks are a defensive team above average this season, allowing just 93.2 points and 43.7% FG (versus opponents that average 95.8 ppg and 44.9% FG).

Miami is also basketball stand strong and heat their games SU 11.4 last fifteen years. They have been a much stronger team with two superstars Dwyane Wade and Shaquille OÂ'Neal Miami is healthy and 20.9 SU (17-12 ATS), when both players are in alignment, instead of only 1.1 SU (0-2 ATS) without Wade and 9-9 SU (7-11 ATS ) without OÂ'Neal this season.

Both players are healthy and Miami, will play tonight with the vengeance of the 103-90 defeat at home in November when he was injured 25a Shaquille OÂ'Neal. It was the Mavericks third straight win in this series as Dallas is 3-0 SU / ATS in the last two years at the head to head meetings.

Chicago Sacramento (-5 ½, 195 ½) (TNT)

The Bulls broke their four game losing streak with a 110-107 victory in Denver last night as the 5 Â ½ weakest. The game was not as close as the final result seems to indicate that the Bulls led by 20 points in the game, including a 15-point lead entering in the fourth quarter.

ChicagoÂ's second-year guard Ben Gordon is the hottest player in the league and who has scored 39, 35 and 30 points from the previous three games. The Bulls must now travel without rest and road game, in the last ten nights. Chicago has exhibited a strange house reverse dichotomy between the road this season for the Bulls have been stronger on the road (11-14 SU / ATS 14.11) than at home (10-13 SU / 7-14 ATS).

Sacramento has battled numerous injuries this year, but get center Brad Miller back in the lineup Tuesday when the Kings defeated the Grizzlies 104-96 as 2 ½ point favorite at home. Miller had missed the previous two games because of a thumb injury. Miller leads the team in rebounding (8.0 rpg), is second in assists (5.2 apg), and is third in scoring (15.1 ppg).

Sacramento was without its top scorer in fourth place, Bonzi Wells (14.6 ppg), for 22 of the last 24 games. Wells returned for a couple of battles against Denver and Utah last week but has since lost the last two games. He is listed as questionable tonight due to his recurring groin injury.

The Kings have started to play better basketball and traded Peja Stojakovic to the Pacers for Ron Artest at the end January. SU In general, the Kings are 3-1 / ATS in their last four games, with his only defeat, when he squandered a 12-point lead entering the fourth quarter of Utah last Friday. In fact, Sacramento has held the lead entering the fourth quarter of each of their last four games.

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