The Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics will clash in the NBA Finals for the second time in three seasons and betED.com has Game 1 and series odds as well as lots of great prop bets.
The Lakers are a 5.5-point favorite and the over/under total is 192.5 in NBA Odds for Game 1 of the NBA championship series on Thursday (9:05 pm ET, ABC).
Phil Jackson would never admit it, but it has to stick in his craw that of the nine times that he has coached teams to the NBA titles, he has never beaten the Celtics in The Finals.
Course, he had only one chance (2008) and Jackson’s Lakers went down in flames that year, so the sample isn’t large.
The Boston Celtics, (11-2, 6-7 ATS, 5-8 O/U) proved they were the ‘Beasts of the East’ again, laying an emphatic smackdown on the Detroit Pistons on Thursday night. The Minnesota Timberwolves, (2-8, 5-5 ATS, 4-6 O/U) snapped their eight-game losing streak with a big win on Wednesday night, covering the spread in the process for BetUS NBA sports betting backers.
The Detroit Pistons (8-3 SU, 6-5 ATS, 7-4 O/U) look like they are beginning to come together after acquiring mercurial shooting guard Allen Iverson recently. The Boston Celtics (10-2 SU, 5-7 ATS, 5-7 O/U) have generally looked like the defending championship team that they are all season long.
The Atlanta Hawks (6-0 SU, 5-1 ATS, 2-4 O/U) are off to a perfect start after getting an invaluable experience in last season’s first round playoff loss to the Boston Celtics (5-1 SU, 4-4 ATS, 2-6 O/U).
The Boston Celtics (5-1 SU, 3-3 ATS, 2-4 O/U) must have taken their emphatic 95-79 road loss to the Indiana Pacers on Nov. 1 personally! Since dropping that contest, the defending champs have won four consecutive games in the BetUS Sportsbook, routing their last three opponents in the process.
