NBA Best Bets and Bold Predictions: About Nuggets vs Celtics

Thursday night in Mile High City will be the second meeting of the season between the Finals favourites. In June, if the Boston Celtics and Denver Nuggets play each other again this season, the championship will be at stake. The Celtics’ 11-game winning streak came to an end on Tuesday when they lost the opening leg of a five-game road trip against the Cleveland Cavaliers. That same night, the Nuggets’ six-game winning streak came to an end as they lost to the Phoenix Suns in overtime. Denver (42-20), the defending champion, is in third place in the West and has the second-highest odds to go back-to-back (+420), while Boston (48-13) has the best record in the NBA and the best odds to win it all (+210). When these teams last faced off, the Nuggets prevailed 102–100 at TD Garden, the Celtics’ only three home losses of the season. In that game, Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray combined for 69 points, while Jayson Tatum, Kristaps Porzingis, and Derrick White, the three Boston starters, finished with a combined 65 points. With a sacroiliac injury, Jaylen Brown is uncertain, as he only had 13 points that evening. Denver Nuggets vs.

Boston Celtics Distributed: Celtics Nuggets -1.5 (-110) | +1.5 (-110) BOS (105) | DEN (1155) are the moneylines. 220.5 in total, with Over (-110) and Under (-110) Match details: On Tuesday, March 5 at 10 p.m. ET, TNT’s best wager is NUGGETS -1.5 (-110) JAMAL MURRAY RECORDS A DOUBLE DOUBLE, BOLD PREDICTION The Celtics’ road trip got off to a rocky start as they lost 105-104 to a Cavs squad missing Donovan Mitchell. For Boston, the NBA’s top offence, it was one of their lowest-scoring performances of the year as Brown and Tatum combined for 47 points on 16-41 shooting. Cleveland defeated Boston at home by making 20 three-pointers against the league’s top three-point shooting squad. Despite the C’s hitting 15 points, the game ended with a low scoring total because of the three-point gap. Boston has the best road record in basketball (19–10) even after their defeat on Tuesday. On the other hand, after that 117-107 defeat to the Suns, Denver’s 24-6 record at Ball Arena is tied for the third-best record in the NBA. This season, the Nuggets have been the home team favourite in all of their games; the line versus the Celtics won’t shift before tipoff. There have only been three underdog installations for Boston this year, which is by far the fewest in the league. The Phoenix club that Denver lost to on Tuesday did not have Devin Booker.

But enough to overcome Jokić, the front-runner for his third MVP of the season, was a 35-point effort from Kevin Durant and an additional 28 from Grayson Allen, which included eight three-pointers. His meagre total of 25 points, 16 rebounds, and five assists was his lowest since January. During the entire season, the Nuggets have not lost consecutive home games. This is as close a line as it gets, even though their record against the spread (27–33–2) isn’t as good as the Celtics’ (30–28–3). Tatum, who may be travelling without his running partner, will be up against Jokić and Murray on home court.