The fifth-seeded Orlando Magic will face the fourth-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 7 at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET. For this game, SportsLine's consensus has Cleveland as his 3.5-point favorite, and the over/under gives him 194 points (up-to-date odds for each game this week can be found on his NBA odds page Please look).
Before you decide on the Magic vs. Cavaliers game, you need to see what the SportsLine projection model says.
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The model ended Friday's 103-96 loss to the Magic, in which shooting guard Donovan Mitchell scored 50 points on 22-of-36 shooting from the floor and ended the series for Cleveland in Game 6. I know that I almost contributed to this. It was the fourth time in the series he scored 20 or more points. He scored 30 points in Game 1, a 97-83 win. In six postseason games, Mitchell is averaging 27 points, 4.3 assists, 4.3 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 36.2 minutes per game.
The model also knows that Orlando power forward Paolo Banchero has been huge in the series, scoring 20 or more points in five of six games. He recorded a double-double with 31 points and 14 rebounds in Game 3, and had back-to-back double-doubles in Games 5 and 6. He scored a playoff-high 39 points in Tuesday's 104-103 loss in Game 5. He also grabbed 8 rebounds. He followed that up with 27 points and eight boards on Friday. Banchero averaged 25.2 points, 7.3 rebounds and 4.3 assists in 36.7 minutes per game during the postseason.
The model simulated Magic vs. Cavaliers 10,000 times and here are the results. You can see that the model is leaning toward total points. Apparently one side of the spread hits in almost 70% of simulations.
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