{"id":11516,"date":"2010-12-14T20:04:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T01:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11516"},"modified":"2010-12-14T20:04:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T01:04:40","slug":"pro-basketball-betting-boston-celtics-at-new-york-knicks-expert-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-basketball-betting-boston-celtics-at-new-york-knicks-expert-picks-11516\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Basketball Betting: Boston Celtics at New York Knicks Expert Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics at New York Knicks
\nWednesday, 12\/15\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Boston -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Boston -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 206
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 205.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The New York Knicks are 10-1 ATS as an underdog during the 2010-11 NBA season and host the Boston Celtics at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boston enters Wednesday\u2019s contest as the hottest team in the NBA and will likely hear more about its opponents winning streak than theirs.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re probably going to be extremely fired up for this game and I\u2019m hoping our guys can match that intensity,\u201d said coach Doc Rivers.\u00a0 \u201cAny time a game has energy, it\u2019s great.\u201d\u00a0 The Celtics have a dominating 19-4 overall record and are 7-2 on the road against Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 The team\u2019s current 10-game winning streak is one shy of its longest from all of last season.\u00a0 Boston comes in off a dominating 93-62 victory in Charlotte on Saturday despite shooting a season-low 43.7 percent from the floor.\u00a0 Last year\u2019s Eastern Conference Champions are 13-9 ATS on the year and slight road favorites on the NBA lines page.<\/p>\n

The Celtics captured the first game of this year\u2019s series with a 105-101 win at the TD Garden and also finished with a 3-1 edge during the 2009-10 season.\u00a0 Point guard Rajon Rondo recorded the second-highest\u00a0 single game assist mark in franchise history with 24 in the earlier meeting, continuing his strong play from the previous year in averaging 11.0 assists versus the Knicks.\u00a0 Boston\u2019s strong play to start the season is nothing new, as it became the first team in NBA history to win 16 of its first 20 games for four consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n

New York is riding its longest winning streak since the 1993-94 season, but experts are quick to point out that three opponents among its last 14 currently have winning records.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Knicks are certainly aware that the level of competition rises in tonight\u2019s contest against one of the top teams in the league.\u00a0 \u201cThey obviously have won a championship a couple of years prior, went to the finals last year, so they\u2019re hands-down the team to beat in the East,\u201d said Amare Stoudemire.\u00a0 New York did pick up a 104-101 victory in the most recent meeting in the Big Apple, with Danilo Gallinari pacing the offensive attack with 31 points.\u00a0 New York is 10-1 ATS as an underdog this year.<\/p>\n

The Knicks have undoubtedly been led by the great play of Stoudemire recently, but point guard Raymond Felton is deserving of accolades as well.\u00a0 He had 19 points and 17 rebounds in the team\u2019s most recent victory over the Denver Nuggets and has hit double-figures in assists in six of the last eight games.\u00a0 Both players have been instrumental in leading the NBA\u2019s best offense entering this high-profile contest, averaging 108.5 points per game.\u00a0 In Mike D\u2019Antoni\u2019s first two seasons as head coach, New York finished 10th in the NBA in scoring in 2009-10 and fourth in 2008-09.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Celtics are 9-1 ATS as a road favorite of 0.5 to 4.5 points, while the Knicks are 13-3 ATS in their last 16 games overall.<\/p>\n

The NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports are off to a flying start and ready for you to join them today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics at New York Knicks Wednesday, 12\/15\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Boston -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Boston -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 206 Current Total:\u00a0 205.5 Boston enters Wednesday\u2019s contest as the hottest team in the NBA and will likely hear more about its opponents winning streak than theirs.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re probably going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[669,120,3686,3622,3902,114,115,197,2072],"class_list":["post-11516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-amare-stoudemire","tag-boston-celtics","tag-doc-rivers","tag-eastern-conference","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-mike-dantoni","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-rajon-rondo","tag-raymond-felton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11517,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11516\/revisions\/11517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}