{"id":23161,"date":"2012-05-25T09:51:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T14:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=23161"},"modified":"2012-05-25T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T14:51:39","slug":"nba-playoffs-2012-philadelphia-76ers-vs-boston-celtics-game-7-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-playoffs-2012-philadelphia-76ers-vs-boston-celtics-game-7-odds-23161\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playoffs 2012: Philadelphia 76ers vs. Boston Celtics, Game 7 Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers at Boston Celtics
\nSaturday, 5\/26\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Boston -5.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Boston -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 171.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 170.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Philadelphia 76ers are looking to become just the second No. 8 seed in history to move past the second round of the NBA playoffs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Philadelphia captured an 82-75 victory over the Boston Celtics as one-point home favorites on Wednesday night in Game 6, which has pushed this best-of-seven Eastern Conference series to the limit.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a great feeling,\u201d commented 76ers guard Evan Turner.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019ll be a great experience.\u201d\u00a0 He is averaging 11.6 points and 7.5 rebounds in the 2012 NBA playoffs, and is coming off a 12-point performance.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 4-6 ATS as a road underdog of 3.5 to 6 points, with the \u201cunder\u201d going 8-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The 76ers dominated the paint in the last affair, outscoring the Celtics by a 42-16 margin inside.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 6-8 all-time in Game 7\u2019s, but is just 1-7 when playing on the road.\u00a0 That particular victory came against the Celtics in the 1982 Eastern Conference Finals.\u00a0 History is definitely not on its side in terms of postseason play in the NBA, as only one eight-seed has ever moved past the second round of the playoffs.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging just 86.6 points per game in the postseason, which is down sharply from the 93.6-point average it finished with in the regular season.<\/p>\n

Boston is hoping that center Kevin Garnett can will his team to victory and advance to the Eastern Conference Finals to take on the Miami Heat, but he\u2019s also played a lot of minutes in the 2012 NBA playoffs.\u00a0 \u201cIt can be hard, but we\u2019ve got to give him breaks or we wouldn\u2019t be getting what we are from him,\u201d stated Celtics head coach Doc Rivers.\u00a0 He is averaging 36.6 minutes in the postseason, which is up from 31.1 during the regular season.\u00a0 Boston is 7-6 ATS as a home favorite of 3.5 to 6 points, while the \u201cover\u201d is 9-4 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Celtics\u2019 aging roster could be running out of gas in this series, posting its lowest shooting percentage of the playoffs last time out.\u00a0 Point guard Rajon Rondo has always been looked upon as the motor of the squad, but he finished with his lowest assist total of the postseason (6).\u00a0 It was actually his lowest since dishing out just five assists on March 9 against the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the 76ers due to their 15-8 ATS record when playing against good defensive teams that allow 91 or fewer points per game, while the Celtics are 3-5 ATS when playing on two days rest.<\/p>\n

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Philadelphia 76ers at Boston Celtics Saturday, 5\/26\/12, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Boston -5.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Boston -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 171.5 Current Total:\u00a0 170.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Philadelphia captured an 82-75 victory over the Boston Celtics as one-point home favorites on Wednesday night in Game 6, which has pushed this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[6680,120,1390,1875,764,832,197],"class_list":["post-23161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-2012-nba-playoffs","tag-boston-celtics","tag-evan-turner","tag-game-7","tag-kevin-garnett","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-rajon-rondo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23161","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=23161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23162,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23161\/revisions\/23162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}