The Lakers and Celtics, the teams with the most championships in NBA history playing on Larry Bird's 65th birthday, hell yeah!
I'm going with J. Tatum's total points + rebounds and the Celtics to cover the spread (alt spread actually, a couple of points added just in case LeBron and co catch fire and decide to show up). The Lakers are 4-11 ATS at home, while the Celtics have a positive record of 10-4 ATS on the road. Tatum has covered the 35+ pts/rebs line in 8 of the Celtics' last 10 games, and i don't see why he won't do it again today against that terrible Lakers defense.
Damn!
Imagine Tatum coming through on his part but losing the bet because of Celtics failure to keep their deficit within 11 points, the 3rd Quarter was the deal breaker
-2.5 Nets is already attractive to me @1.88 so I will go with it. KP is not playing but there are reports that Luka might not play because of another injury he suffered. So that is a big blow to the Mavericks.
It looks like Porzingis and Doncic will be playing based on the odds shift as Nets and Mavs moneyline are now hovering around 1.80 - 2.00 and the spread moved to -1.5.
Regardless of the lineup, i'm still going for the
Nets since they usually turn things back after a loss and the Mavs might need a couple of matches before they get back their old form.
Both KP and Doncic played and the Mavs looked to be heading for win until their sudden collapse in the 4th Quarter, making just 2 field goals from about the 9 minute mark, and 4 field goals in total all through the quarter, absurd right ?!