Miami Heat vs. Atlanta Hawks: A Close Matchup on Friday Night

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00:00And Gilbert, certainly the talk here in South Florida

00:02is surrounding the Miami Heat tonight.

00:04The Heat will play a team that they have played quite a bit

00:07through the years, the Atlanta Hawks.

00:08The Hawks have been through it through the years.

00:10Seems like they're in this play-in ever since they started.

00:13The Hawks, a very slight home favorite tonight, minus one.

00:16It's basically a money line bet, total 220.

00:19It tells you how much the odds makers think

00:21that this is a dead even matchup here

00:23because the Hawks basically to have any kind of home court advantage

00:27should be favored, you would think, by two, two and a half.

00:29Not the case tonight.

00:30Tells you this could come down right to the end.

00:33Absolutely.

00:34Definitely could come down to the wire, as you mentioned,

00:36two teams who are very familiar with one another.

00:38And then you have the fact that earlier this week,

00:40Miami looked really good, while Atlanta did not.

00:43So there's momentum at play here.

00:45And the Heat looked like they had a couple more players

00:47capable of making plays in these spots in a play-in tournament.

00:50So I do lean and understand the lean and why it's kind of a pick-em

00:55with these two games.

00:56But I understand the momentum and everything being on Miami's side.

00:59And for those reasons, I actually expect them to win tonight.