{"id":33360,"date":"2014-03-10T22:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T03:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=33360"},"modified":"2014-03-10T15:49:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T20:49:46","slug":"nba-picks-boston-celtics-vs-indiana-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-picks-boston-celtics-vs-indiana-pacers-33360\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Picks: Boston Celtics vs. Indiana Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics vs. Indiana Pacers
\nTuesday, 3\/11\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -12
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -12
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 195
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 195
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Indiana Pacers have been tremendous at home against conference rivals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boston has won back-to-back games, including a 118-111 victory over the Detroit Pistons as one-point home favorites Sunday, while going OVER the betting total of 206.5.\u00a0 The Celtics have three of five probable starters averaging double figures, with forward Jeff Green leading the way at 16.9 points a contest, which is important to consider when making your NBA betting picks.\u00a0 The team is 8-22 SU on the road, including a 8-9 mark versus Eastern Conference opponents.\u00a0 Boston is 8-0 ATS in its last eight affairs versus conference rivals.<\/p>\n

The Celtics will try to avoid getting swept in a season series by the Pacers for the first time in 15 years, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NBA betting lines.\u00a0 Boston is coming off its highest-scoring game since Nov. 11\u2014helped out by finishing with a season-high 38 assists and a season-lower seven turnovers.\u00a0 The squad has dropped its three prior meetings with Indiana by an average of 15.7 points.<\/p>\n

Indiana will try to avoid its longest losing streak in more than two years, as it returns home after dropping a 105-94 decision to the Dallas Mavericks as 1.5-point road favorites Sunday, while going OVER the betting total of 198.5.\u00a0 The Pacers have all five probable starters averaging double figures, with forward Paul George leading the way at 22.3 points a contest.\u00a0 He recorded his ninth double-double of the season in finishing with 27 points and 11 rebounds last time out.\u00a0 Indiana is 5-17-1 ATS in its last 23 games.<\/p>\n

The Pacers are 29-4 SU at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, including a dominating 19-1 mark when taking on conference opponents.\u00a0 Indiana ranks first in the NBA in allowing just 35.3 points per game in the paint, which has played a big part in outscoring opponents by an average of 5.7 points in the second half during the 2013-14 campaign.\u00a0 The team is also sixth in the league in grabbing 45.2 boards per contest.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Pacers due to the Celtics being 2-5 ATS in their last seven games versus teams with a winning record.<\/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":"

Boston Celtics vs. Indiana Pacers Tuesday, 3\/11\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indiana -12 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indiana -12 Opening Total:\u00a0 195 Current Total:\u00a0 195 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Boston has won back-to-back games, including a 118-111 victory over the Detroit Pistons as one-point home favorites Sunday, while going OVER the betting total of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[120,3622,565,3301,18,1918],"class_list":["post-33360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-boston-celtics","tag-eastern-conference","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-jeff-green","tag-nba","tag-paul-george"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33360","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=33360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33362,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33360\/revisions\/33362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}