REASON FOR PICK: At 7:00 ET, my 10* NBA Game of the Month is on Atlanta. These teams faced each other at Atlanta yesterday with the Cavaliers earning a minor upset. Off that loss and having been swept by Cleveland in last year's playoffs, we should see the best of the Hawks tonight. Everyone knows that Lebron is a great player. He's arguably the best in the entire conference, if not the league. The Hawks are the more complete "team" though. A starting frontcourt of Smith (15.2-8.0), Horford (13.8-9.9) and Williams (10.2-5.1) plays with a backcourt that consists of Johnson (21.2-5.2-5.0) and Bibby (9.3-4.3 APG) as its starters plus Crawford (17.1) adding outstanding contributions of the bench. Atlanta's bench may be just as deep as Cleveland's. Last night, it was the Hawks in the role of the favorite. Tonight, the situation is reversed. Why is that noteworthy? Check this out. The Cavaliers are perfect (SU and ATS) as underdogs on the season. They're only 13-15 ATS in the favorite role though and they're also just 5-9 ATS at home. Like the Cavaliers, the Hawks have thrived when getting points. They're 4-1 ATS when playing in the underdog role, three of those wins (at Dallas, at Boston, at Portland) coming in outright fashion. The Hawks have also won 10 of 15 when playing the second of back to back games, going 9-4-1 ATS. Only one of those 15 games resulted in a double-digit loss. They've hung within six of the Cavaliers in two of their last three regular season games here and will do so again tonight. *10