The 12-19 Dallas Mavericks will travel to play the 21-8 Miami Heat in an NBA pro basketball game on Wednesday night. Tip off time from Miami is scheduled for 7:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by NBA TV.

The NBA odds from this pro basketball game has the home club Miami Heat favored by -11 points with an over under line of 203 ½ points. When the odds came out a few hours ago it was Miami favored by -10 ½ points with a total of 203 points. There has been a ½ point move on Miami and to the over.

The teams met on December 20th and it was Miami with the 110-95 road win at Dallas as a -6 ½ point favorite. The game landed over 203 points. Trend: The over is 5-0 to the over in their past five head to head meetings.

The Mavericks are just 4-13 straight up on the road this season. The team is in a bad position with the improvement of the Western conference could be in danger of missing the playoffs. They have lost six straight games with five of those losses by double digits as they traveled to Washington on New Year’s Day. Dallas comes off the 103-94 road defeat win last night against the Wizards as a -4 point betting favorite. The game went over 192 points. On the year the Mavericks have been poor defensively allowing nearly 103 points a game ranking 28th in the league. Dirk Nowiztki has returned to the lineup following his knee surgery. In 17 minutes he scored 11 points 5 of 7 shooting off the bench.

Miami is 14-2 on their home court. After a two game losing streak the Heat end their road trip with the 112-110 road overtime win on New Year’s Eve to the Orlando Magic as a -10 point betting favorite. It was the third straight game for the Heat to allow over 100 points a game. They allowed the Magic nearly 48% shooting. This is the type of defense the Heat was allowing during the struggles early this season. The Miami coaching staff challenged the players to play April May style basketball and got performance up until this current road trip.