Atlanta at Boston

Atlanta is a .500 road team, and while they've won three in a row, it was against bad teams (Detroit once and Charlotte twice). Before that they played at Philly, a team fighting for playoff positioning, and lost 95-90. That was part of a 1-3 run losing to teams that are in playoff races, the Bucks and Bulls, losing by 7 and 21 points. They face a Boston team on its home court that has been playing great basketball since the All Star break.  The Celtics whipped Miami ten days ago at home and many said it was a fluke, then they went to Miami last night and won shooting 60%, so this team is playing hard for Doc Rivers. He has shortened the bench and is still getting great defense out of them. This is a short price on the Celtics at home, so the value is with Boston to win the game; Play the Celtics on the money-line.