The Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics play Game 7 of their series this Monday. Check out our preview of this Heat vs Celtics matchup in the 2022-23 NBA Playoffs. There are more basketball previews to read here at TopBet, so feel free to look around and make bets once you’re ready.
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Betting Preview for the Miami Heat vs Boston Celtics NBA Playoffs Eastern Conference Finals Game 7 on May 29, 2023
Where: TD Garden, Boston
When: Monday, May 29, 2023, 8:30 PM ET
Line: Miami Heat (+7.0) vs. Boston Celtics (-7.0) – view all 2020-21 NBA lines
TV Broadcast: TNT
Betting on the Miami Heat (+7.0)
Regular Season Record: 44-38
The Heat have failed to close out this series three times in a row. But history is still on the side of Miami, as there remain to be zero teams in the history of the NBA to come back and win a series despite trailing 0-3. Jimmy Butler and the Heat entered the conference finals round as a massive underdog and if you told them prior to the series that they’d go up 3-0 and lose three in a row, they would still take it. And it’s not like the Heat have not had success so far in the series in Beantown. Remember that Miami went up 2-0 after embarrassing the Celtics at TD Garden in Games 1 and 2. The Heat are also still shooting well from deep, having drilled 14 3-pointers on 30 attempts in Game 6.
Miami is 9-3 against the spread in their last 12 games after scoring at least 100 points in a prior contest.
Betting on the Boston Celtics (-7.0)
Regular Season Record: 57-25
One more win and the Celtics will become the first team ever in league history to erase a 0-3 series deficit in the playoffs and win it all in Game 7. Boston is simply showing the Heat why it is the No. 2 seed in the East. Whereas the Milwaukee Bucks, East’s No. 1 seed, failed to get it together, the Celtics have managed to do so before it’s too late, it seems. The Celtics will have a homecourt advantage in Game 7, and that should give the team a tremendous boost. Boston’s defense is also making plenty of damage of late. Although they let the Heat sink a lot of threes in Game 6, the Celtics still limited Miami to just 35.5 percent shooting from the floor.
The Over is 8-3 in the Celtics’ last 11 games against a team that had just scored more than 100 points in a prior contest.
Writer’s Prediction
The Celtics win, 111-101.
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