BOSTON (4) vs. MIAMI (5) Playoff Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\nGame 1: Saturday, April 17: Miami at Boston, 8 p.m.
\nGame 2: Tuesday, April 20: Miami at Boston, 8 p.m.
\nGame 3: Friday, April 23: Boston at Miami, 7 p.m.
\nGame 4: Sunday, April 25: Boston at Miami, 1 p.m.
\nGame 5: Tuesday, April 27: Miami at Boston, TBD*
\nGame 6: Thursday, April 29: Boston at Miami, TBD*
\nGame 7: Saturday, May 1: Miami at Boston, TBD* ![\"Online](\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/impressions.asp?btag=a_3953b_41\")
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Fans in Boston have soured on the Celtics, who have sleep-walked through the second half of the season. <\/p>\n
The number of things wrong with the team (Kevin Garnett\u2019s knee, the bench\u2019s struggles, Rasheed Wallace\u2019s crappy attitude, the overall aging of the core players) far exceeds those that aren\u2019t (basically PG Rajon Rondo).<\/p>\n
If the key players (Garnett, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen) have been dogging it and can turn it on now, the Celtics may have a few bullets left in the chamber. <\/p>\n
Boston swept the season series against the Heat (3-0), but Miami ended the year on a protect-the-women-and-children 18-4 run, and will have the best player on the court any time Dwyane Wade is not getting rest.<\/p>\n
Wade went off on the Hawks in last year\u2019s opening round and nearly took Atlanta down before Miami ran out of gas. <\/p>\n
But Boston has been somewhat effective against him by forcing the ball out of his hands as much as possible.<\/p>\n
Heat vs Celtics Series Betting Odds:<\/strong>
\nHeat +165
\nCeltics -195<\/p>\nHeat vs. Celtics Prediction: Boston in 6. <\/strong><\/p>\nNo Eastern Conference playoff team had a worse home record (24-17) than the Celtics this season, and hunch bettors might be tempted to take a flyer on the Heat because of that. But the Celts have proven they can win on the road, and splitting the first two at Boston wouldn\u2019t be a dagger.<\/p>\n
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\nLawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel expert from Massachusetts.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 7 game series between the Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics opens on Saturday night, here’s the NBA betting odds and our prediction for the series… <\/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":[10330,27786,27787,27805,23684,27806,27807,23685,27808,23682,23074,12358,13136,12357],"class_list":["post-21242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-10330","tag-2010-nba-futures","tag-2010-nba-playoff-picks","tag-heat-celtics-lines","tag-heat-celtics-picks","tag-heat-celtics-predictions","tag-heat-vs-celtics-series-preview","tag-heat-vs-celtics","tag-miami-heat-vs-boston-celtics-predictions","tag-miami-vs-boston","tag-nba-betting-picks","tag-nba-playoff-picks","tag-nba-playoff-prediction","tag-nba-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242","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=21242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107136,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242\/revisions\/107136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}