{"id":3483,"date":"2009-02-08T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/spurs-celtics-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-02-08T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T14:49:00","slug":"spurs-celtics-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/spurs-celtics-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs-Celtics Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The San Antonio Spurs and the Boston Celtics will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at TD Banknorth Garden. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 7-point favorites versus the Spurs, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Roger<\/st2:GivenName> Mason<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> paced San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> with 26 points and six assists in its 104-96 loss to Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> covered as 4-point home favorites as the game played over the 199-point total listed by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Celtics scored 38 points in the fourth quarter to rally for a 110-100 win over the Knicks on Friday. The Celtics covered the 6.5-point spread, and the 210 points made it OVER the posted total of 207.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ray<\/st2:GivenName> Allen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> led the Celtics with 22 points from 7-for-13 shooting, and dished out six assists. Paul<\/st2:GivenName> Pierce<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> netted a team-high 26 points in this victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 33-15 SU, 23-23-2 ATS
Boston: 42-10 SU, 29-23 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
San Antonio most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 9-1
Before playing New Jersey are 6-4
After playing Denver are 7-3
After a loss are 8-2<\/p>\n

Boston most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 8-2
Before playing New Orleans are 6-4
After playing New York are 7-3
After a win are 9-1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of San Antonio’s last 5 games
San Antonio is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games when playing on the road against Boston
San Antonio is 18-3 SU in its last 21 games when playing Boston
San Antonio is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Boston is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing San Antonio
Boston is 13-1 SU in its last 14 games
Boston is 19-2 SU in its last 21 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Boston’s last 7 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
San Antonio<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at New Jersey<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Tuesday, February 10
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, February 11<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The San Antonio Spurs and the Boston Celtics will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at TD Banknorth Garden. Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 7-point favorites versus the Spurs, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. Roger Mason paced San Antonio with 26 points … Continue reading Spurs-Celtics Lines 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-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","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=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}