CLICK HERE FOR THE BEST NBA WEEKLY PLAYOFF GAMBLING TIPS & FREE NBA PREDICTIONS!! \u2014><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Team records:<\/strong> By the time the Celtics and Magic tip off Friday night Orlando shooters will have had 45 hours to cool down and Boston\u2019s bodies will have had 45 hours to heal. <\/p>\n How much the Magic have cooled off and how healthy the Celtics are will pretty much determine whether there will be a Game 7 in this series on Sunday.<\/p>\n Matchup: MAGIC vs. CELTICS<\/strong><\/p>\n Time<\/strong>: Friday 8:30 ET After the Celtics hounded the Magic into poor shooting from 3-point territory in the early part of this series, Orlando\u2019s guns are suddenly blazing. Jameer Nelson was ridiculous in Game 5, hitting 52 percent of his deep shots. Vince Carter remains in a funk, but no matter \u2013 J.J. Redick has more than pick up the slack. <\/p>\n If radio and TV people once utter the word \u201cunconscious\u201d Friday night, Boston has trouble.<\/p>\n Doc Rivers\u2019s strategy early in the series was perfect \u2013 let Dwight Howard maneuver down low with only one defender, and make sure Nelson, Carter and Rashard Lewis don\u2019t rain 3s. It produced three straight victories, but for a variety of reasons that business model is broken, maybe beyond repair.<\/p>\n Boston is dealing with a toxic combination of age and ill health. The Celts need all the bigs they can get to deal with Howard, but Rasheed Wallace has a bad back, Glen Davis has a concussion and Kendrick Perkins can\u2019t deal with his emotions. <\/p>\n Rajon Rondo\u2019s creativity has been slowed by a bad ankle. <\/p>\n The only rotation player completely healthy is Ray Allen, and they can\u2019t seem to get him the ball.<\/p>\n The chances are slim that Orlando will be intimidated by playing another elimination game in Boston. <\/p>\n The Magic won Game 7 in the Eastern semifinals in Boston last season, and gritted out Game 4 this season. <\/p>\n Orlando is younger than Boston, but the Magic have veterans and last year\u2019s march to The Finals serves them well.<\/p>\n The heat definitely is on the Celtics, who no doubt exhale deeply and slump their shoulders at the thought of another trip to the Magic Kingdom on Sunday for a Game 7 that few fans even in Boston think they could survive.<\/p>\n Magic vs. Celtics Game 6 Free NBA Prediction<\/strong><\/p>\n Fans in Boston are going nuts about the officiating in Game 5 in Orlando, and even if you are not a conspiracy theorist, the NBA has a way of evening things out. Taking back one of Perkins\u2019s technicals, which enables him to avoid a one-game suspension and play Friday, could be step one. <\/p>\n Keep an eye on how the refs call non-shooting fouls against Boston\u2019s front line. A relatively clean first quarter opens to the door to aggressive denial play for the rest of the game. Touch fouls mean the Celtics are in for a world of hurt. Note that two of the three referees \u2013 Mike Callahan and Monty McCutchen \u2013 strongly favor home teams SU and both are well above .500 ATS. <\/p>\n Advice here is to hold off wagers until an announcement is made on Davis and\/or Wallace, then try to nail the bet before the line moves. Celtics -3.5 if they play, but go the other way if they sit and you can catch the number before a significant change in the line or the vig. <\/p>\n Another option is to hammer the over if Wallace and Davis sit. <\/p>\n A victory by the Suns Thursday night would have created another lean toward Boston because the NBA would not want a Phoenix-Orlando Finals.<\/p>\n <\/strong> Our experts weigh in with this week\u2019s best Round 3 NBA Playoff picks for gambling on all the action\u2026Monday on the hardwood we get the Orlando Magic vs. Boston Celtics for game 6 of their 7 game Eastern conference nba final series…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":22534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13920,4045,5595,24569,24570,3490,13450,13681,29359,5631,13561,20992,20991,12357,9273,9921,29358,5628],"class_list":["post-22860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-eastern-conference-finals","tag-free-nba-picks","tag-free-nba-predictions","tag-friday-night-nba","tag-friday-night-nba-picks","tag-game-6","tag-game-six","tag-magic-celtics-odds","tag-magic-celtics-picks","tag-magic-vs-celtics","tag-magic-vs-celtics-predictions","tag-nba-parlay-betting","tag-nba-parlay-picks","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-selections","tag-online-nba-predictions","tag-orlando-boston-picks","tag-orlando-magic-vs-boston-celtics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22860","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=22860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22862,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22860\/revisions\/22862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBoston: 50-32 SU, 33-48-1 ATS
\nOrlando: 59-23 SU, 45-33-4 ATS<\/p>\n
\nVenue<\/strong>: TD Garden, Boston
\nSpread<\/strong>: Celtics -3.5
\nOver\/Under<\/strong>: 188.5 <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/media.partners.betus.com\/BANNERS\/basketball\/sportsbook_basketball_250x250_banner1.gif\")
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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":"