Cleveland Cavaliers at Miami Heat Live Stream & Tips – Cavs To Win 1st Road Game Of NBA Playoffs Series

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Last updated: 25 Apr 2025

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Cleveland aiming to increase series lead over Miami
Cavs have won 10 of their last 14 games; Miami has lost 6 of 10
Miami needs a home victory to stay competitive in the series

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Cleveland Cavaliers at Miami Heat Predictions & Tips

Cleveland Cavaliers at Miami Heat Predictions & Tips
Head To Head
Cleveland Cavaliers Form
Miami Heat Form

Cleveland Cavaliers at Miami Heat Predictions & Tips

Cleveland are tipped to cover as they move a step closer to sweeping Miami.

The Cavaliers are in great form and boast a perfect record against the Heat this year, including a blowout win at the Kaseya Center in late January.

Cleveland Cavaliers have won 10 of their last 14 games
Miami Heat have lost 6 of their previous 10 games
3 of Cleveland’s 4 wins over Miami in 2025 have been by more than 6 points
The Over has cashed in 8 of the last 10 meetings

Head To Head

Miami Heat lead the all-time series 80-55
Cleveland Cavaliers won 121-112 when the two teams last met on April 23

Cleveland Cavaliers Form

Cleveland make the trip to Miami holding a 2-0 series lead thanks to back-to-back victories at home.

The Cavaliers won the final two regular season meetings with the Heat, and continued that trend as they made the most of home advantage.

They opened this playoff series with a 121-00 blowout of Miami, and then backed that up with a 121-112 success in Game 2.

Cleveland claimed their place in the playoffs by compiling a 64-18 regular-season record to finish atop the Eastern Conference.

The Cavaliers have now made the postseason in each of the last three seasons, bowing out in the first round in 2023 before reaching the conference semi-finals in 2024.

Miami Heat Form

Miami go into their first home game in this series in need of a victory, having lost back-to-back road games to start this series.

The Heat came into this series on the back of a couple of Play-In wins, but they have faced a serious step up in quality of opposition and that has shown in the results.

They began the series with a 121-100 defeat in Cleveland, and that was followed by a 121-112 loss that has left them trailing 2-0.

Miami earned their place in the playoffs by going 37-45 in the regular season, before successfully negotiating the Play-In Tournament.

The Heat avenged a recent blowout loss to Chicago with a 109-90 victory in the first round of the Play-In, and backed that up with a 123-114 overtime win in Atlanta to make the playoffs.

Verdict

CLE Cavaliers @ MIA Heat - Game 3

Cleveland have dominated this series so far and have now won four straight meetings with Miami.

Momentum is on their side and they are the better team, so we are backing the Cavaliers to open up a three-game cushion in this series.

Cleveland -6.0

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