{"id":28709,"date":"2013-05-03T13:57:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=28709"},"modified":"2013-05-03T13:57:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:57:50","slug":"nba-playoff-picks-new-york-knicks-vs-boston-celtics-game-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-playoff-picks-new-york-knicks-vs-boston-celtics-game-6-28709\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playoff Picks: New York Knicks vs. Boston Celtics, Game 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks at Boston Celtics
\nFriday, 5\/3\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New York -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 181.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 181.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Heat
The Boston Celtics will try to force a Game 7 with a victory over the New York Knicks Friday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York still holds a 3-2 series lead over Boston, but it has dropped back-to-back games, including a 92-86 setback as nine-point home favorites Wednesday night.\u00a0 \u201cWe didn\u2019t get it done,\u201d commented Knicks coach Mike Woodon.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s not going to be easy by any means going to Boston and getting a win there.\u201d\u00a0 The Knicks were 23-18 overall on the road during the regular season, including a 17-9 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 New York is 4-5 SUATS as road favorites of three points or less, with the UNDER going 5-3-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Knicks are being led on the offensive end by forward Carmelo Anthony, who led the NBA in scoring during the regular season, as he\u2019s averaging 30.8 points in 41.6 minutes of action.\u00a0 New York needs a bounce-back performance from Sixth Man of the Year Award winner J.R. Smith, who is averaging 15.8 points in four games of action in the postseason.<\/p>\n

Boston is averaging just 82.8 points on 41.9 percent shooting in this series, but it has limited New York to 41 percent from the floor, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NBA picks against the spread Friday night.\u00a0 \u201cWe just know every game for us is a Game 7,\u201d commented Celtics reserve guard Jason Terry.\u00a0 The Celtics are certainly aware that only three teams have rallied from an 0-3 deficit to force a decisive game, with each of those squads losing in the final contest.\u00a0 Boston is 8-2 ATS off an upset win as an underdog this season.<\/p>\n

The Celtics have three probable starters averaging in double figures, with Jeff Green and Paul Pierce both averaging 20.2 points per game, while center Kevin Garnett is leading all players in the 2013 NBA playoffs in grabbing 14.4 rebounds per contest.\u00a0 Terry is contributing 11.6 points and 2.4 assists per game off the bench.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the OVER is 4-2 in the Celtics six games as a home underdog of three points or less this season.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks at Boston Celtics Friday, 5\/3\/13, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New York -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 181.5 Current Total:\u00a0 181.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New York still holds a 3-2 series lead over Boston, but it has dropped back-to-back games, including a 92-86 setback […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[120,49,3622,3563,83,115,846],"class_list":["post-28709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-boston-celtics","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-eastern-conference","tag-jason-terry","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-paul-pierce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28709","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=28709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28710,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28709\/revisions\/28710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}