{"id":23264,"date":"2012-06-04T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=23264"},"modified":"2012-06-05T10:26:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T15:26:50","slug":"nba-playoffs-2012-boston-celtics-vs-miami-heat-game-5-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-playoffs-2012-boston-celtics-vs-miami-heat-game-5-odds-23264\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playoffs 2012: Boston Celtics vs. Miami Heat, Game 5 Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics at Miami Heat
\nTuesday, 6\/5\/12, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 180
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 179
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Miami Heat are hoping to welcome Chris Bosh back on the court with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in Game 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boston heads back to South Beach with the Eastern Conference Finals tied at two games apiece, winning both of its home games, including a 93-91 overtime victory as two-point underdogs on Sunday night.\u00a0 The Celtics have now turned their focus in trying to steal home-court advantage in winning game five at the AmericanAirlines Arena.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to win a game in Miami, of course,\u201d commented Celtics forward Paul Pierce about winning this high-profile series in the 2012 NBA playoffs.\u00a0 Boston is 2-5 ATS as a road underdog of 6.5 to 9 points, while the \u201cunder\u201d is 6-1 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Celtics haven\u2019t been able to practice in between games in the postseason, as they\u2019ve played in 17 contests and practice just once.\u00a0 Boston is an aging team, but definitely has the talent to win this game, with all five projected starters averaging double figures in the postseason.\u00a0 Point guard Rajon Rondo has been the floor leader offensively, averaging 17.4 points and 11.9 rebounds, while also making some noise in halftime interviews about the Heat constantly complaining to the referees.<\/p>\n

Miami is hoping to welcome back one of its stars in this contest, as power forward Chris Bosh has been upgraded to day-to-day with an abdominal injury that he suffered more than three weeks.\u00a0 \u201cThey all say they\u2019re ready,\u201d stated Heat coach Erik Spoelstra about players wanting to come back from injury.\u00a0 The Heat are still capable of taking the series with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade leading the way, but it\u2019s going to be tough if Bosh is unable to go.\u00a0 Miami is 10-6 ATS as a home favorite of 6.5 to 9 points, while the \u201cover\u201d is 13-3 in those games.<\/p>\n

The Heat are being led by James on the offensive end in averaging 29.9 points per game during the postseason, scoring at least 20 points in 13-straight games.\u00a0 Miami has won seven of its eight home playoff games, including the first two in this series, averaging 104 points in those contests.\u00a0 Keep a watchful eye on Bosh\u2019s status, with the team winning 72 percent of its games with him in the lineup since the start of the 2011-12 season, while going just 12-11 without him.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Celtics due to their 7-1 ATS mark in the last eight meetings, while the Heat are 11-12 ATS revenging a loss versus an opponent.<\/p>\n

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Boston Celtics at Miami Heat Tuesday, 6\/5\/12, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 180 Current Total:\u00a0 179 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Boston heads back to South Beach with the Eastern Conference Finals tied at two games apiece, winning both of its home games, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[6680,6360,120,4928,66,707,197],"class_list":["post-23264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-2012-nba-playoffs","tag-americanairlines-arena","tag-boston-celtics","tag-eastern-conference-finals","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-rajon-rondo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23264","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=23264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23268,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23264\/revisions\/23268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}