This is Caching Out on V-SIN, the SportsBetting Network.

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I'm Dustin Swedelson, and I'll be with you all night long here from the Circus Sportsbook in downtown Los Vegas.

Broadcasting, as always, Sirius XM Channel 158, YouTube TV, the Visa Watch app and radio affiliates across the United States of God bless America. The playing games are finally here. Our first initial attack to limit tanking. And we're going to chat with Travis DeMers here in just a second. Is he good to go, guys? We're going to switch the phone. What are we going to do here? Because we're going to call him. All right, we're going to get Travis on the phone and get his thoughts on this series. He is the play-by-play voice of the Portland Trailblazers, one of my longest friends in this industry. As Portland goes to Phoenix, we'll be on the air sweating out this game while he's calling the trailblazers and the suns.

Phoenix is a three and a half point favorite.

This total has dropped since it opened last night, 217.5, down from 219.5.

I wouldn't touch it right now in terms of the total.

I think I'd move and pivot to the first half under if I was going to do something on the total, but at 217 and a half, we're getting pretty low. Phoenix, the three and a half point favorite, I kind of like Portland. Maybe Travis can give us a little guidance here. As he's watched this team all along and he's seen all these Western Conference teams all season long, so when to get his perspective on everything to come, The early game is Miami and Charlotte, where the Hornets are laying five and a half the total in the game.

228 and a half.

I like Miami catching the points here.

I just think you have so much more experience on the sidelines, on the roster, with Bamadabio,

Eric Spolstra, Tyler Hero, Norman Powell.

The question is, can Miami shoot enough threes? Can they keep pace with the Charlotte team that loves to shoot the ball beyond the

arc? Live on that perimeter. And I think that Miami might be able to an isolated playoff game

where these possessions are a bit more condensed, keep it a lot closer.

I don't know if they win the game, but I think that they can hang within five and

half against Charlotte, who, look, I love them like everyone else, but I think everyone else

completely overrates them, okay?

I think they're a tad bit overrated.

Now, overrated doesn't mean bad.

I want to be clear about that.

Overrated is based on perception. And I think everyone

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