Pistons vs Cavaliers NBA Playoffs Predictions: The NBA Eastern Conference top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers will play the bottom seeded Detroit Pistons in their NBA Eastern Conference round-one opener. The best of seven-games series gets underway in Cleveland at 3 p.m. ET and will be televised on ABC.
NBA Playoffs predictions experts list the Cavaliers as double-digit 12-chalk favorites over the Pistons with a 175 total. The Cavaliers are -1000 favorites on the SBGglobal moneyline while Pistons backers are getting +700 moneyline odds.
The Cavaliers only lost twice at home all season and this NBA Playoffs Predictions series looks very one-sided. The betting will be popular on Cleveland and for good reason. The Cavaliers were the NBA’s best team this season and they were lethal at home going 39-2 straight up and 28-13 against the spread. Cleveland had the best defense in the NBA this season and they should be able to shutdown a poor Detroit offense in this series. The Pistons were 28th in the league on offense and that does not bode well for them in this series against the Cavaliers. Detroit’s defense was pretty good at 8th in the league but they have little chance of shutting down LeBron James in this series.
Almost all of the NBA Playoffs Predictions betting numbers favor Cleveland in this game and in this series. The Pistons are Pistons are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 road games. Detroit is 1-6 ATS in their last 7 vs. the Central Division. And it also doesn’t help Detroit in NBA Playoffs odds in Game One that they are 2-5 ATS in the last 7 meetings in Cleveland.
