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Boston at Indiana

December 18, 2017
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The Boston Celtics opened the season with a lot of excitement as they brought in Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward, as well as drafting Jason Tatum in the first round of the NBA draft. That excitement came to a silence when Gordon Hayward suffered a season ending injury just five minutes into the season. Boston lost their first two games, and things started to look bad, but have picked up the pieces to go 25-5 since. The Celtics win because they play defense every night, and have depth and scoring, and share the ball. Indiana shot an impressive 56% in their last game, but this team is not consistently offensive, and each time they have shot 50% or better on the season they came back to shoot 44% or less in all but one game. Boston is defense first and I would expect Indiana to do a lot of misfiring tonight. Make the play on Boston.

1 unit on Boston -2 (-107) (risk 1 to return 1.93)
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Indiana Pacers
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111
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