The Cleveland Cavaliers (1-0) are home in Central Division action against the Detroit Pistons (0-1) on Friday, October 25, 2024 at 7:30 PM ET. It’s the first matchup between these clubs this year.
The Cavaliers are a 10-point favorite against the Pistons when the Cavaliers and the Pistons meet. The matchup features a point total of 224.5.
Cavaliers vs. Pistons betting odds
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- Spread: Cleveland -10
- Total: 224.5
- Moneyline: Cleveland -490, Detroit +380
Pistons at Cavaliers odds, spread, & more
Prediction
- Pick ATS: Cavaliers (- 10)
- Pick OU:
Over (224.5)
- Prediction:
Cavaliers 130 – Pistons 104
Moneyline
- The Cavaliers finished with a 37-16 record in Games they were listed as the moneyline favorite last season (winning 69.8% of those Games).
- Cleveland had a record of 7-4 when playing as a moneyline favorite with odds of -490 or shorter last year (63.6%).
- The Cavaliers have an implied moneyline win probability of 83.1% in this Game.
- Detroit won 11, or 14.9%, of the 74 Games it played as underdogs last season.
- The Pistons had a record of 4-31, a 11.4% win rate, when they were set as an underdog of +380 or more by bookmakers last season.
- The implied probability of a win by Detroit, based on the moneyline, is 20.8%.
Against the spread
- Last year, the Cavaliers put up 6.4 fewer points per Game (112.6) than the Pistons gave up (119).
- When Cleveland put up more than 119 points last season, it went 13-7 against the spread and 15-5 overall.
- When it scored more than 110.2 points last season, Detroit went 24-15 against the spread and 11-28 overall.
- Cleveland went 25-14-2 against the spread and 33-8 overall last season when it allowed fewer than 109.9 points.
- Last season, the Cavaliers were at the 20th spot in the NBA’s scoring charts (112.6 PPG), while the Pistons allowed the 26th-fewest points per Game (119) in the league.
- Detroit’s squad was the 27th-ranked scoring team (109.9 PPG) in the NBA a season ago, while Cleveland ranked seventh in terms of allowing points per Game (110.2).
- The Cavaliers out-scored their opponents by a total of 198 points last season (2.4 points per Game on average), and opponents of the Pistons out-scored them by 747 more points on the year (9.1 per Game).
Over/Under
- Cleveland’s average implied point total last season was 2.6 fewer points than its implied total in Friday’s Game (114.4 implied points on average compared to 117 implied points in this Game).
- Last season, Cleveland outscored its implied point total for this matchup (117) 28 times.
- The average implied point total last season for Detroit (118.5) is 11.5 more points than the team’s implied total in this matchup (107).
How to watch Cavaliers vs. Pistons
- Game day: Friday, October 25, 2024
- Game time: 7:30 PM ET
- TV channel: FDS-OH and FDS-DET
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio
- Arena: Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
- Live stream: Watch this Game Fubo
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