{"id":2996,"date":"2008-12-11T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/celtics-wizards-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T12:26:00","slug":"celtics-wizards-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/celtics-wizards-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics-Wizards Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Boston Celtics and the Washington Wizards will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Verizon<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 10-point favorites versus the Wizards, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Celtics defeated Indiana<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 122-117 in overtime as an 8-point favorite on Sunday. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (199). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ray Allen scored a game-high 35 points for Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Kevin Garnett added 17 points and 20 rebounds in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Caron Butler dropped 33 points and dished out six assists to lead the Wizards over the Pistons 107-94 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> cashed as 4.5-point home underdogs as the game played over the 195-point total set by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 12 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 20-2 SU, 12-10 ATS
Washington: 4-15 SU, 9-10 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Boston most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing New Orleans are 5-5
After playing Indiana are 6-4
After a win are 10-0<\/p>\n

Washington most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing Philadelphia are 3-7
After playing Detroit are 6-4
After a win are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston’s last 5 games when playing Washington
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Boston’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Washington
Washington is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games
Washington is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing Boston
Washington is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Boston
Washington is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Boston<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, December 12
Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, December 13<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Boston Celtics and the Washington Wizards will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Verizon Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 10-point favorites versus the Wizards, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. The Celtics defeated Indiana 122-117 in overtime as an 8-point favorite on … Continue reading Celtics-Wizards 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-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","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=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}