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According to bookmaker.eu, the Boston Celtics are the favorites to win their first NBA Championship since 2008.
The odds for the Boston Celtics and Jayson Tatum to win the championship are -157. The Minnesota Timberwolves (+250), Dallas Mavericks (+545), and Indiana Pacers (+2650) are next.
The Celtics are the only club without a title in an eight-year term (including overlapping spans) that has reached six conference finals since the NBA switched to conferences in the 1970–71 season. They are also the seventh team to do so.
The Los Angeles Lakers won five (1980–91), the Golden State Warriors four (2015–22), and Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls won six (1989–98).
According to former NBA player and ESPN analyst Austin Rivers, the game between the Celtics and Pacers in the Eastern Conference semifinals on Tuesday night (8 p.m. ESPN) will mostly depend on how the Celtics’ guards Derrick White and Jrue Holiday handle Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton.
In Game 7 of the conference semifinals on Sunday, Indiana defeated the Knicks, 130-109, behind Haliburton’s 26 points on 6-of-12 shooting from beyond the arc. In the previous series, he made 29 3-pointers against the Knicks.
Tyrese Haliburton is the beginning and the end of it, according to Rivers on SportsCenter. “Obviously, Derrick White and Jrue Holiday are two of the Celtics’ dynamic defensive guards, so that’s the matchup I’m looking at.”
I’m looking at what Jrue Holiday and Derrick White can do to a Tyrese Haliburton, how can they affect his pace because that’s what he does for the Pacers. It’s not just score and set up teammates, it’s the pace at which he pushes this team and how they play.
