05-21-2023, 10:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-21-2023, 11:06 AM by Sam Leopold.)
The Celtics are favored by -4 to win tonight's game IN Miami and will probably be given a similar line for Game 4 in a couple of days. Also, the Heat are only a modest favorite at -170 to advance to the Finals in spite of winning both of the first two games in Boston.
I have never bet real money on sports and don't currently have the infrastructure in place to do so, but if I did, these Heat lines would stick out to me as an outstanding value. The Heat certainly appear to be the superior team psychologically.
If the Celtics were to get out of this hole and grace the Finals, the most likely route (among various unlikely ones) appears to be to win Games 3, 5, 6 and 7, although evening the series in South Beach is not totally inconceivable. Home court advantage in the playoffs doesn't seem to have much meaning to the Celtics this year.
I have never bet real money on sports and don't currently have the infrastructure in place to do so, but if I did, these Heat lines would stick out to me as an outstanding value. The Heat certainly appear to be the superior team psychologically.
If the Celtics were to get out of this hole and grace the Finals, the most likely route (among various unlikely ones) appears to be to win Games 3, 5, 6 and 7, although evening the series in South Beach is not totally inconceivable. Home court advantage in the playoffs doesn't seem to have much meaning to the Celtics this year.
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