{"id":2860,"date":"2008-12-01T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/magic-celtics-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T08:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T13:38:00","slug":"magic-celtics-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/magic-celtics-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic-Celtics Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at TD Banknorth Garden.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 8\u00bd-point favorites versus the Magic, while the game’s total has not yet been posted.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dwight Howard poured in a game-high 32 points and hauled down 21 rebounds for a double-double as the Magic defeated the Pacers 110-96 on Saturday. The Magic covered the 8-point spread, while the 206 points made it OVER the posted total of 202.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rashard Lewis added 24 points, and Hedo Turkoglu had 22 points with five rebounds in the win.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Celtics got off to an unusually slow start, but turned it up to come back and defeat the Bobcats 89-84 on Saturday. The Celtics failed to cover the 9-point spread, and the 173 points went UNDER the posted total of 180.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kendrick Perkins had 15 points with 12 rebounds for a double-double to lead the Celtics. Paul Pierce netted a team-high 19 points in the win.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Orlando<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 4 straight games.
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 8 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Orlando<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 13-4 SU, 9-7-1<\/st1:date> ATS
Boston: 16-2 SU, 9-9 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Orlando most recently:
When playing on Monday are 5-5
Before playing Minnesota are 5-5
After playing Indiana are 4-6
After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n

Boston most recently:
When playing on Monday are 4-6
Before playing Indiana are 4-6
After playing Charlotte are 3-7
After a win are 9-1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Orlando is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Orlando is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Orlando’s last 5 games on the road
Orlando is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games when playing Boston
Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Boston is 13-1 SU in its last 14 games at home
Boston is 11-2 ATS in its last 13 games when playing at home against Orlando
Boston is 11-2 SU in its last 13 games when playing at home against Orlando<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Orlando<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Wednesday, December 3
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Wednesday, December 3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at TD Banknorth Garden. Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 8\u00bd-point favorites versus the Magic, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Dwight Howard poured in a game-high 32 points and … Continue reading Magic-Celtics Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}