{"id":3690,"date":"2009-03-08T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/magic-celtics-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-03-08T08:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T13:21:00","slug":"magic-celtics-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/magic-celtics-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic-Celtics Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at TD Banknorth Garden. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 4-point favorites versus the Magic, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>The Magic escaped an upset, downing the Nets 105-102 at Amway Arena Friday. <br \/>New Jersey covered as a 9.5-point road underdog while the final score played over the 201.5-point total. <br \/>The Celtics reminded the Cavaliers that they are still the team to beat with a 105-94 win at TD Banknorth Garden Friday. <br \/>Boston won as a 1.5-point home favorite while the final score played over the 185.5-point total. <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Orlando has won 3 straight games.<br \/>Boston has won 2 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Orlando: 45-16 SU, 38-22-1 ATS <br \/>Boston: 49-14 SU, 34-29 ATS <br \/>Orlando most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Detroit are 7-3<br \/>After playing New Jersey are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Boston most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing Miami are 4-6<br \/>After playing Cleveland are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 5-5<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Orlando is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Orlando&#39;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Orlando&#39;s last 5 games when playing on the road against Boston<br \/>Orlando is 16-6 ATS in its last 22 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 7 of Boston&#39;s last 8 games at home<br \/>Boston is 12-2 ATS in its last 14 games when playing at home against Orlando<br \/>Boston is 12-2 SU in its last 14 games when playing at home against Orlando<br \/>Boston is 21-4 SU in its last 25 games at home<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Orlando at Detroit, Monday, March 9<br \/>Boston at Miami, Wednesday, March 11<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at TD Banknorth Garden. Oddsmakers currently have the Celtics listed as 4-point favorites versus the Magic, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. The Magic escaped an upset, downing the Nets 105-102 at Amway &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/magic-celtics-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Magic-Celtics Lines Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","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=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}