{"id":22185,"date":"2012-03-12T09:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=22185"},"modified":"2012-03-12T09:51:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:51:40","slug":"nba-predictions-boston-celtics-vs-los-angeles-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-predictions-boston-celtics-vs-los-angeles-clippers-22185\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Predictions: Boston Celtics vs. Los Angeles Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics at Los Angeles Clippers
\nMonday, 3\/12\/12, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -5.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 185
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 185
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Boston Celtics are 5-1 ATS in March this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boston ended up on the losing end of a 97-94 contest against the Los Angeles Lakers as six-point road underdogs on Sunday, as the team has now alternated wins and losses over the last four games.\u00a0 The Celtics have also gone \u201cover\u201d the total in six of their last seven games.\u00a0 \u201cThey made shots down the stretch, and we didn\u2019t,\u201d commented Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo.\u00a0 The team is 5-11 on the road this year, including an 0-3 mark versus Western Conference foes.\u00a0 Boston is 3-8 ATS when playing on back-to-back days.<\/p>\n

The Celtics split their two meetings with the Los Angeles Clippers during the 2010-11 campaign, with each team winning on the other\u2019s home court.\u00a0 Boston captured a 99-92 win over Los Angeles as eight-point favorites on Feb. 26.\u00a0 Shooting guard Ray Allen averaged 22.5 points and 5.0 rebounds in the two games, while forward Paul Pierce added 21.5 points.\u00a0 Pierce has really struggled away from the TD Garden in his last three tries, managing to score just 13.7 points per game on 34.2 percent shooting.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles will play the second game of a back-to-back situation at the Staples Center, as it returned home to drop a 97-93 affair to the Golden State Warriors as 7.5-point favorites.\u00a0 The Clippers truly lacked focus in missing 16 of 35 free throws and point guard Chris Paul was part of the mess in missing three of six from the charity stripe.\u00a0 \u201cWe beat ourselves,\u201d stated Paul after the game.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s the real story of this.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s a busy month for the squad in playing 20 games in March.\u00a0 Los Angeles is 7-3 ATS when playing on back-to-back days and the \u201cunder\u201d is 8-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Clippers will still rely on Paul on the offensive end due to averaging 27.0 points and 8.7 assists over the last three games, which has been made possible by shooting 59.2 percent from the floor.\u00a0 Los Angeles ranks third in the NBA with 13.6 turnovers per game, which is much better than giving it away 16.3 times a contest last year.\u00a0 All-Star power forward Blake Griffin managed to score 27 points and grab 12 rebounds last night.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Celtics due to the underdog being 6-0 ATS in the last six meetings, while the Clippers are 0-4 ATS as a favorite of 5.0 to 10.5 points.<\/p>\n

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Boston Celtics at Los Angeles Clippers Monday, 3\/12\/12, 10:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Los Angeles -5.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Los Angeles -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 185 Current Total:\u00a0 185 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Boston ended up on the losing end of a 97-94 contest against the Los Angeles Lakers as six-point road underdogs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[749,120,837,1371,846,197,3624,3693],"class_list":["post-22185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-blake-griffin","tag-boston-celtics","tag-chris-paul","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-paul-pierce","tag-rajon-rondo","tag-staples-center","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22185","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=22185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22187,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22185\/revisions\/22187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}