{"id":28006,"date":"2013-03-05T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28006"},"modified":"2013-03-05T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T22:22:00","slug":"nba-betting-odds-and-predictions-boston-celtics-vs-philadelphia-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-betting-odds-and-predictions-boston-celtics-vs-philadelphia-76ers-28006\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Odds and Predictions: Boston Celtics vs. Philadelphia 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics at Philadelphia 76ers
\nTuesday, 3\/5\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Boston PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Boston -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 185
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 183
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Philadelphia 76ers are 4-1 ATS as home underdogs of three points or less<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boston has won back-to-back games, including a 94-86 victory over the Golden State Warriors as four-point home favorites last Friday, while going UNDER the posted total of 197.\u00a0 \u201cEvery game is important from here on out because it could mean the difference between the eighth seed and the fourth seed,\u201d commented Celtics forward Paul Pierce.\u00a0 The Celtics are 10-18 overall on the road this season, including an 8-10 mark when taking on Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Boston is 10-7 ATS when playing on three or more days rest the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 9-8 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Celtics have dropped six of their last seven road games versus the 76ers, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NBA expert picks Tuesday night.\u00a0 Boston has averaged 86.0 points and hit 28.3 percent of its shots from the 3-point area in those seven affairs.\u00a0 Pierce leads the team in scoring, averaging 18.6 points per game, while center Kevin Garnett is behind him at 14.9.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has dropped eight of its last 10 games, including a 90-87 setback to the Washington Wizards as six-point road underdogs Sunday, while going UNDER the total for the third time in four contests.\u00a0 \u201cI really feel like we do fight and come to play every single game,\u201d stated 76ers point guard Jrue Holiday.\u00a0 Over the past six games, Holiday is averaging 20.5 points on 47.1 percent shooting, while also managing to knock down 41.7 percent of his 3-point shots in his last nine affairs.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 4-1 ATS as home underdogs of three points or less this season, with the OVER going 3-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The 76ers are looking to win consecutive season series for the first time since 1998-99 through 2001-02, while they\u2019ve won five of the last eight meetings overall.\u00a0 Philadelphia has won consecutive games just once since the start of December, which has led to it trailing the Milwaukee Bucks by 6.5 games for the eighth and final spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the 76ers due to the home team being 6-1 ATS in the last seven meetings, while the Celtics are 3-7-1 ATS versus conference foes.<\/p>\n

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Boston Celtics at Philadelphia 76ers Tuesday, 3\/5\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Boston PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Boston -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 185 Current Total:\u00a0 183 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Boston has won back-to-back games, including a 94-86 victory over the Golden State Warriors as four-point home favorites last Friday, while going UNDER […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[120,3622,943,18,846,832],"class_list":["post-28006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-boston-celtics","tag-eastern-conference","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-nba","tag-paul-pierce","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006","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=28006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28007,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006\/revisions\/28007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}