{"id":3056,"date":"2008-12-17T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/celtics-hawks-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T07:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T12:06:00","slug":"celtics-hawks-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/celtics-hawks-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics-Hawks Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Boston Celtics and the Atlanta Hawks will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Philips Arena. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rajon Rondo led Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in scoring with 25 points to win 100-91 over Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> for their 15th<\/sup> straight win on Monday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Celtics failed to cover the 10-point spread, while the combined score played just UNDER the posted total of 191. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It was not pretty but Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> pulled out a 83-79 win over Charlotte<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> thanks to 28 points from Joe Johnson on Monday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Hawks failed to cover the 8.5-point spread, while the final score played UNDER the posted total of 185.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 15 straight games.
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 23-2 SU, 14-11 ATS
Atlanta: 15-9 SU, 13-11 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Boston most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 6-4
Before playing Chicago are 6-4
After playing Utah are 7-3
After a win are 10-0<\/p>\n

Atlanta most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 5-5
Before playing Golden State are 5-5
After playing Charlotte are 3-7
After a win are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Boston’s last 6 games when playing Atlanta
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Boston’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Atlanta
Atlanta is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Atlanta’s last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Atlanta’s last 6 games when playing Boston
Atlanta is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Boston<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Boston home to Chicago, Friday, December 19
Atlanta home to Golden State, Friday, December 19<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Boston Celtics and the Atlanta Hawks will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Philips Arena. Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. Rajon Rondo led Boston in scoring with 25 points to win 100-91 over Utah … Continue reading Celtics-Hawks 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-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","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=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}