Boston (51-23) at Utah (42-32)
When: Wednesday, March 28th 2018
Where: Vivint Smart Home Arena, Salt Lake City, UT
Time: 9:35 ET | TV: ESPN
Opening Odds: Utah -6.5/195.5
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The Utah Jazz will go for the season sweep of the Boston Celtics as they continue their surge toward the playoffs when the teams meet on Wednesday night in Salt Lake City. The Jazz have won 11 of their last 13 games to climb up to seventh place in the Western Conference after a 110-91 win at short-handed Golden State on Sunday. Utah will play five of its final eight games at home starting on Wednesday and is a game and a half behind fourth-place Oklahoma City entering Tuesday’s action. The matchup with Boston was supposed to feature the return of Gordon Hayward, who left the Jazz to sign a max deal with the Celtics in free agency last summer. Hayward went down for the season with an ankle injury in the opening game, but the Jazz are exceeding expectations without its former franchise player. Hayward isn’t the only major injury suffered by a key player for Boston, which is without All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving for the rest of the regular season after he underwent knee surgery late last week. The Celtics are still within range of first place in the Eastern Conference, trailing the Toronto Raptors by three games as we approach the end of the regular season. Utah earned a 107-95 win at Boston back in December to snap a three-game losing streak in the series.
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We have two terrific rookies in this contest that are battling Philadelphia’s Ben Simmons in the Rookie of the Year race. Boston’s Jayson Tatum probably won’t win the award, but is still having a solid first season. He scored a team-high 23 points on 10-of-18 shooting in Monday’s 102-94 win at Phoenix and is averaging 18.8 points on 56.9% shooting over the last five games. Celtics point guard Terry Rozier is taking advantage of Irving’s absence by averaging 17.2 points in March, including a 33-point effort in a win at Sacramento on Sunday.
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Donovan Mitchell is the other sensational rookie, and he has scored at least 21 points in each of the last six games with help on the inside from center Rudy Gobert. The third-leading shot blocker in the league recorded 17 points, 15 rebounds and four swats in Sunday’s win at Golden State and is averaging 15.6 points on 63.9% shooting and 11.7 rebounds over the last 27 games. The Jazz are 23-4 over that span, which began a few games after Gobert returned from a sprained PCL and bruised tibia suffered at Boston on December 15th.
The Jazz are on a roll right now and were able to handle Boston back in December without Gobert and with Irving playing for the Celtics. Boston is ending a long road trip and are probably ready to go home mentally.
Pick: Jazz -6.5
- Celtics are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games following a ATS loss.
- Celtics are 6-0 ATS in their last 6 vs. NBA Northwest.
- Celtics are 6-1 ATS in their last 7 Wednesday games.
- Celtics are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games playing on 1 days rest.
- Celtics are 17-5 ATS in their last 22 when their opponent scores 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Celtics are 9-3 ATS in their last 12 games overall.
- Celtics are 19-7 ATS in their last 26 road games vs. a team with a home winning % of greater than .600.
- Celtics are 38-15-2 ATS in their last 55 road games vs. a team with a winning home record.
- Celtics are 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
- Celtics are 5-2 ATS in their last 7 vs. Western Conference.
- Celtics are 41-18-1 ATS in their last 60 after scoring 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Celtics are 35-17 ATS in their last 52 road games.
- Jazz are 6-1 ATS in their last 7 vs. Eastern Conference.
- Jazz are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games following a ATS win.
- Jazz are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games following a straight up win of more than 10 points.
- Jazz are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
- Jazz are 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games vs. a team with a winning % above .600.
- Jazz are 4-10 ATS in their last 14 vs. NBA Atlantic.
- Jazz are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games overall.
- Under is 5-0 in Celtics last 5 games playing on 1 days rest.
- Over is 4-0-1 in Celtics last 5 road games vs. a team with a home winning % of greater than .600.
- Over is 4-0-1 in Celtics last 5 vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
- Over is 7-1-1 in Celtics last 9 games following a ATS loss.
- Under is 5-1 in Celtics last 6 overall.
- Over is 5-1-1 in Celtics last 7 road games vs. a team with a winning home record.
- Under is 4-1 in Celtics last 5 road games.
- Over is 4-1 in Celtics last 5 Wednesday games.
- Under is 4-1 in Celtics last 5 games following a straight up win.
- Under is 4-1 in Celtics last 5 when their opponent scores 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Under is 4-1 in Celtics last 5 vs. Western Conference.
- Under is 4-1 in Celtics last 5 after scoring 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Over is 11-5 in Celtics last 16 vs. NBA Northwest.
- Under is 4-0 in Jazz last 4 Wednesday games.
- Under is 10-1 in Jazz last 11 vs. Eastern Conference.
- Over is 4-1 in Jazz last 5 overall.
- Over is 4-1 in Jazz last 5 games vs. a team with a winning % above .600.
- Under is 8-2 in Jazz last 10 home games.
- Under is 8-2 in Jazz last 10 when their opponent scores 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Over is 8-2 in Jazz last 10 vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
- Under is 10-3 in Jazz last 13 games playing on 2 days rest.
- Under is 10-3 in Jazz last 13 games following a straight up win.
- Over is 9-3 in Jazz last 12 vs. NBA Atlantic.
- Under is 5-2 in Jazz last 7 games following a ATS win.
- Under is 7-3 in Jazz last 10 after scoring 100 points or more in their previous game.
- Over is 6-1 in the last 7 meetings in Utah.
- Over is 4-1 in the last 5 meetings.
- Celtics are 9-3-2 ATS in the last 14 meetings.
- Favorite is 10-4-2 ATS in the last 16 meetings.
