Celtics vs. Rockets: A Potential Finals Preview at TD Garden

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00:00And Donnie, one of the best games of the night at the home of the reigning champs inside

00:04TD Garden.

00:05The Celtics six and a half point favorite against the Houston Rockets, 2-22 is that

00:11total.

00:12Boston, second best record around the Eastern Conference.

00:16Houston, second best record in the Western Conference.

00:20A finals preview, again I think is a little bit liberal with the use of that term, but

00:25what are we expecting tonight in Beantown?

00:28I think we got a good game.

00:29And you see that six and a half opened up here in New Jersey at FanDuel with that number

00:32and still sitting this morning at six and a half.

00:34Be interesting to see where that moves.

00:36The total itself, 221 and a half as the opener, now up to 222.

00:40But if there's two ways you can look at this game, Houston is ready for prime time or the

00:45Celtics understand the magnitude of this game, like come on now, you're actually looking

00:48at these guys as one of those contenders out in the West.

00:50Let's show them what's up, we're at home on our home court.

00:52So theoretically you'd say, you know what, I think this is going to be a Boston win by

00:55double digits.

00:56But to me, I look at that line and read it as that's a Houston Rockets line where I'm

01:00expecting them to come to town and say, you know what, we're going to shake it up here.

01:04Yeah, you want a championship, but let's announce our presence here by saying we're not afraid

01:08of you.

01:09We're not going to cower and lose by 15 points.

01:10We're going to play Fred VanVleet, Jalen Green, Amund Thompson, Dylan Brooks, and Alperin

01:14Shangoon are expected to be in the starting lineup tonight.

01:17I think they fight tonight, Ben.

01:18Give me the six and a half for the upstart Houston Rockets in Boston to sort of have

01:23a measuring stick game for them.

01:25How about that?