{"id":23149,"date":"2012-05-23T10:02:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=23149"},"modified":"2012-05-23T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T15:02:31","slug":"nba-playoffs-2012-boston-celtics-vs-philadelphia-76ers-game-6-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-playoffs-2012-boston-celtics-vs-philadelphia-76ers-game-6-odds-23149\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playoffs 2012: Boston Celtics vs. Philadelphia 76ers, Game 6 Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics at Philadelphia 76ers
\nWednesday, 5\/23\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -2
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 174.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 175.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Boston Celtics will try to close out their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boston will look to close out this best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series in six games on Wednesday night, as the team comes off a 101-85 victory as 5.5-point home favorites in Game 5.\u00a0 \u201cWe defended. We changed everything we did with our energy,\u201d commented Celtics guard Paul Pierce.\u00a0 He shares the team lead in averaging 19.3 points during the 2012 NBA playoffs with center Kevin Garnett, scoring 16 points and hitting all nine shots from the free throw line last time out.\u00a0 Boston is 17-13 ATS as an underdog and the \u201cunder\u201d is 18-12 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Celtics are being led on the floor offensively by the play of point guard Rajon Rondo, who has notched at least 13 assists in each of the five games in this series.\u00a0 Boston will need that continued production in hopes of closing things out, especially considering that forward Brandon Bass isn\u2019t likely to score 27 points again, as he broke his previous career playoff high of 19 on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia will need to lean heavily on its 4-0 record following a loss in the postseason this year in hopes of pushing this series to a Game 7, which is entirely possible due to neither team winning consecutive games.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re on the edge right now,\u201d commented 76ers forward Elton Brand.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s no comfortable feelings anywhere around here.\u201d\u00a0 The 76ers also managed to produce a 17-13 record in the first game following a loss during the regular season.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 29-22 ATS as a favorite and the \u201cover\u201d is 33-18 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The 76ers must try and avoid a big deficit in this contest, trailing the Celtics by 18-plus points at some stage in the past three games.\u00a0 Philadelphia has struggled on the offensive end since scoring 109 points against the Chicago Bulls in Game 2 of its first-round series, not scoring above 92 points in any of the past nine games.\u00a0 The team is averaging 87.0 points per game during the postseason after scoring 93.6 during the regular season.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the 76ers due to the home team being 7-3 ATS in the last 10 meetings, while the Celtics are 5-6 in the playoffs this year.<\/p>\n

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Boston Celtics at Philadelphia 76ers Wednesday, 5\/23\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -2 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 174.5 Current Total:\u00a0 175.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Boston will look to close out this best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series in six games on Wednesday night, as the team comes off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[6680,120,3622,271,764,846,832,197],"class_list":["post-23149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-2012-nba-playoffs","tag-boston-celtics","tag-eastern-conference","tag-elton-brand","tag-kevin-garnett","tag-paul-pierce","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-rajon-rondo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23149","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=23149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23150,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23149\/revisions\/23150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}