{"id":22571,"date":"2012-04-01T09:46:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T14:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=22571"},"modified":"2012-04-01T09:46:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T14:46:59","slug":"heat-vs-celtics-nba-eastern-conference-rivals-meet-inside-the-td-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/heat-vs-celtics-nba-eastern-conference-rivals-meet-inside-the-td-garden-22571\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat vs. Celtics: NBA Eastern Conference Rivals Meet Inside the TD Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat at Boston Celtics
\nSunday, 4\/1\/12, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 186.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 185.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Celtics<\/a>
Boston Celtics PG Rajon Rondo has always been a tough matchup for the Miami Heat on any court<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami will play its fifth road game in the last six contests when taking on the Boston Celtics inside the TD Garden on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 The Heat have won and covered their last two games, including a 113-101 victory over the Toronto Raptors as seven-point road favorites on Friday night.\u00a0 Power forward Chris Bosh is coming off a 30-point performance against his former team, which has pushed his current squad\u2019s record to 12-0 when he scores 24 or more points this season.\u00a0 Miami is 13-14 ATS on the road and the \u201cover\u201d is 14-11 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Heat are 16-11 overall on the road this season, including a 13-5 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Miami captured a 115-107 victory in its first meeting with Boston as 9.5-point home favorites, while going \u201cover\u201d the total for the fifth time in the last six in this particular series.\u00a0 Small forward LeBron James continues to be the leader on the offensive end, averaging 26.5 points and 6.6 assists per game.\u00a0 He finished with 26 points on 11-of-18 shooting against the Raptors.<\/p>\n

Boston has come to life in winning four games in a row, as an aging roster has silenced its critics for the time being, especially with the play of center Kevin Garnett.\u00a0 \u201cI hear you calling me old,\u201d stated Garnett in a press conference earlier this week.\u00a0 He has responded in averaging 23.7 points on 59.3 percent shooting in the team\u2019s last three games.\u00a0 Small forward Paul Pierce is still the main offensive threat on the roster, scoring 19.0 points per game.\u00a0 Boston is 8-2 ATS on Sundays this year and the \u201cover\u201d is 6-4 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Celtics will put their solid 18-8 home record on the line, which includes a 14-4 mark versus Eastern rivals.\u00a0 Despite losing the first game in their series with the Heat, the Celtics did manage to win three of four regular-season meeting a year ago, with guard Ray Allen leading the way in scoring 20.3 points per game on 57.1 percent shooting from beyond the arc.\u00a0 Point guard Rajon Rondo figures to loom large in determining the winner of this affair, as he\u2019s dished out double-figures in assists in his past 12 games.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Celtics due to their 6-0 ATS mark at home, while the Heat are 3-7 ATS versus winning teams.<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat at Boston Celtics Sunday, 4\/1\/12, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 186.5 Current Total:\u00a0 185.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Miami will play its fifth road game in the last six contests when taking on the Boston Celtics inside the TD Garden on […]<\/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":[120,3622,66,707,846,3917],"class_list":["post-22571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-boston-celtics","tag-eastern-conference","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-paul-pierce","tag-td-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22571","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=22571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22572,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22571\/revisions\/22572"}],"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=22571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}