{"id":3501,"date":"2009-02-12T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/celtics-mavericks-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T18:13:00","slug":"celtics-mavericks-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/celtics-mavericks-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics-Mavericks Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at American<\/st1:PlaceName> Airlines<\/st1:PlaceName> Center<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 3\u00bd-point favorites versus the Mavericks, while the game’s total is sitting at 194. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Celtics allowed just 13 points in the fourth quarter to earn an 89-77 win over the Hornets last time out. The Celtics covered the 7-point spread, while the 166 points fell UNDER the posted total of 185.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Paul<\/st2:GivenName> Pierce<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> led the way with a game-high 30 points, while Kevin<\/st2:GivenName> Garnett<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had 14 points and 10 rebounds for a double-double in that win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Josh<\/st2:GivenName> Howard<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> scored 23 points and hauled down six rebounds, as the Mavericks outgunned the Kings 118-100 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dallas<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as 12-point home favorites as the teams played over the 213-point total listed by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Dallas<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 43-11 SU, 30-24 ATS
Dallas: 31-20 SU, 24-27 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Boston most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 8-2
Before playing Utah are 6-4
After playing New Orleans are 3-7
After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n

Dallas most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 4-6
Before playing New Jersey are 6-4
After playing Sacramento are 6-4
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 on the road
Boston is 14-2 SU in its last 16 games
Boston is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Dallas
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Boston’s last 10 games when playing on the road against Dallas
Dallas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Dallas is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing at home against Boston
Dallas is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Dallas’s last 6 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Thursday, February 19
Dallas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> home to New Jersey<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Wednesday, February 18<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at American Airlines Center. Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 3\u00bd-point favorites versus the Mavericks, while the game’s total is sitting at 194. The Celtics allowed just 13 points in the fourth quarter to earn … Continue reading Celtics-Mavericks Odds 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-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","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=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}