NBA Best Bets: Celtics vs. Pelicans Picks for January 12
Published 11:39 pm Saturday, January 11, 2025
The Boston Celtics (27-11) square off against the New Orleans Pelicans (8-31) as double-digit, 14.5-point favorites on Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM ET on NBCS-BOS and Gulf Coast Sports.
Why don’t you check out the best bets available (according to our computer predictions) for Sunday’s game, before you make a wager on this matchup?
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Celtics vs. Pelicans Game Info
- When: Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM ET
- Where: TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts
- TV: NBCS-BOS and Gulf Coast Sports
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Celtics vs. Pelicans Best Bets
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Pick ATS: Celtics (- 14.5)
- Against the spread, Boston is 16-22-0 this season.
- Against the spread, New Orleans is 15-24-0 this year.
- The Celtics have won twice ATS (2-5) as a 14.5-point favorite or more this season.
- The Pelicans don’t have a win ATS (0-2) as a 14.5-point underdog or more this year.
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Pick OU:
Under (226.5)
- Celtics games this season have gone over this contest’s total of 226.5 points 17 times.
- Pelicans games this season have had a combined scoring total higher than 226.5 points in 20 of 39 outings.
- The average total in Boston’s matchups this year is 228.4, 1.9 fewer points than this game’s over/under.
- The average over/under for New Orleans’ matchups this season is 223.5, three fewer points than this game’s total.
- The Celtics are the sixth-highest scoring team in the NBA this year. The Pelicans have scored the 16th-most points.
- The Celtics are the NBA’s 10th-ranked scoring defense while the Pelicans are the 28th-ranked.
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Moneyline Pick: Celtics (-1099)
- The Celtics have entered the game as favorites 36 times this season and won 27, or 75%, of those games.
- The Pelicans have been chosen as underdogs in 29 games this year and have walked away with the win four times (13.8%) in those games.
- This season, Boston has won five of its seven games when favored by at least -1099 on the moneyline.
- New Orleans has been named as an underdog of +675 or more just one time this season and left with a loss in that game.
- The Celtics have a 91.7% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
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