\u00a0daily for exclusive pro basketball bonus betting specials, and gambling promotions.<\/strong><\/p>\nKey to series<\/strong>: \u00a0First Tom Brady, and now this? Garnett\u2019s injury takes title No. 18 out of play, but the Celtics should have enough juice to get by the Bulls. The battle at point guard should be ferocious, with Rose and Rajon Rondo both at full throttle.<\/p>\nSeason Overall Record<\/strong>:<\/p>\nBoston 62-20
\nChicago 41-41<\/p>\n
Season series:<\/strong>\u00a0Boston 2-1<\/p>\nHead-to-head:<\/strong>![\"Sports](\"http:\/\/www.bodogaffiliate.com\/resources\/banners\/sportsbook\/square\/250x250\/250x250g-sportsbook.gif\" "\\"2009")
<\/p>\n(at) Chicago 127, Boston 121
\n(at) Boston 126, Chicago 108
\n(at) Boston 96, Chicago 80<\/p>\n
Playoff schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\nGame 1 – Sat April 18 Chicago at Boston 12:30PM ESPN
\nGame 2 – Mon April 20 Chicago at Boston 7:00PM TNT
\nGame 3 – Thu April 23 Boston at Chicago 8:00PM TNT
\nGame 4 – Sun April 26 Boston at Chicago 1:00PM ABC
\nGame 5 * Tue April 28 Chicago at Boston TBD
\nGame 6 * Thu April 30 Boston at Chicago TBD
\nGame 7 * Sat May 2 Chicago at Boston TBD<\/p>\n
Playoff Gambling Trends:<\/strong>\u00a0Boston has gone more than a month since losing at home, but has been a lousy cover team since the Kevin Garnett injury. The Bulls were on a pretty good late-season run until the burp against the Raptors cost them one spot in the East seedings and forced a matchup with Boston instead of Orlando.<\/p>\nHow Boston wins:<\/strong>\u00a0Without Kevin Garnett the Celtics bigs turn it up a notch and still dominate inside.<\/p>\nHow Chicago wins:<\/strong>\u00a0The Bulls get balanced scoring from Ben Gordon, Derrick Rose and John Salmons. The Celtics suck wind as Chicago turns the series into the Indy 500.<\/p>\nPrediction:<\/strong>\u00a0Boston in 6.<\/p>\nProps, Halftime, Quarter Line, player props and more. All the lines are at Bodog!<\/p>\n
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Lawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel writer from Massachusetts. He is personally responsible for the election of Barack Obama and has also taught himself how to juggle? \u00a0He can be reached at newenglandhoops.net.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad news for the Celtics if they’re going to try to defend their NBA championship, there’s no optimism that Kevin Garnett can return in the playoffs from a knee injury. Our prediction, the Celtics big men come up big against the Bulls, imagine that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[41,12960,13074,13075,13076,13077,13078,13079,1982,13067,744,1595,2381,12357,3925,12965,12969],"class_list":["post-10242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-41","tag-2009-nba-playoff-betting","tag-bulls-celtics-playoff-schedule","tag-bulls-celtics-series-odds","tag-bulls-vs-celtics-odds","tag-bulls-vs-celtics-predictions","tag-bulls-vs-celtics-preview","tag-chicago-bulls-vs-boston-celtics","tag-eastern-conference","tag-eastern-conference-2009-playoff-predictions","tag-nba-betting","tag-nba-gambling","tag-nba-picks","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-predictions","tag-playoff-predictions","tag-round-1-matchup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103010,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions\/103010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}