In the TNT opener,<\/strong> 17-4 Boston (8 straight wins and owner of the best record in the Eastern Conference) continues its Terrorize the League Tour by taking on the 76ers in Philadelphia. The Sixers have won 4 of 5, and after their horrendous start they don\u2019t care that the four wins were against losing teams and the one loss was against a decent club (Atlanta). ![\"Online](\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/impressions.asp?btag=a_3953b_41\")
<\/p>\nThey\u2019ll take them any way they can as they try to figure out if they want\/need to make a major move before the trading deadline.<\/p>\n
The 76ers are suddenly playing solid basketball and enter Thursday\u2019s home contest against the red-hot Celtics with a rare dose of confidence after overcoming a horrible start.<\/p>\n
Boston\u2019s most-recent loss was to the Toronto Raptors on Nov. 21. The Celtics have notched four victories of 16 or more points during their eight-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
Boston is 7-3 on the road this season.<\/p>\n
Best bet:<\/strong> The Magic also get their PG back tonight, as Jameer Nelson (stomach virus) returns just in time for the start of Orlando\u2019s 4-game Western swing. Nelson\u2019s absence might explain the Magic\u2019s last two games \u2013 both losses, to Milwaukee and Atlanta \u2013 that were largely the result of horrendous shooting (10 for 44 combined) behind the 3-point arc.<\/p>\nIf Orlando can\u2019t make its 3-pointers, it\u2019s usually a rough night overall. With the two PGs back and figuring the offenses to run smoothly, it might be a time to take a good look at the Over (186). Parlay players could match that up with another Over on Boston-Philly.<\/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":"Our experts weigh in with this week\u2019s best Thursday night hoops NBA picks for gambling on all the action…tonight on the hardwood we get the Boston Celtics vs. Philadelphia 76ers…<\/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":[40605,40604,40598,40599,40600,40601,40602,40603,4045,5595,8665,20992,20991,9273,9921,22581,37632,37631],"class_list":["post-30456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics-vs-philadelphia-76ers","tag-boston-philadelphia-picks","tag-celtics-76ers-odds","tag-celtics-76ers-picks","tag-celtics-vs-76ers","tag-celtics-vs-76ers-lines","tag-celtics-vs-76ers-odds","tag-celtics-vs-76ers-predictions","tag-free-nba-picks","tag-free-nba-predictions","tag-nba-on-tnt","tag-nba-parlay-betting","tag-nba-parlay-picks","tag-nba-selections","tag-online-nba-predictions","tag-thursday-nba-picks","tag-thursday-night-nba-betting","tag-tnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30456","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=30456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107197,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30456\/revisions\/107197"}],"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=30456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}