Knicks vs Celtics Game 1 Preview: Odds and Predictions

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00:00We have two close-to-double-digit spreads, so let's focus on the first game tonight.

00:03It's the Knicks and the Celtics, 7 o'clock start.

00:06Line open at the Fandle Sportsbook at 9, still sits at 9.

00:09Let me start here with you.

00:10Tonight, by the time this game tips at 7 o'clock, Joe, where is this spread at?

00:16Oh, I think it's going to be back and forth between 9, 9 1⁄2.

00:20I don't think it's going to fluctuate a whole lot from there.

00:23The total is going to be the interesting thing to me, to whether or not this starts to creep up.

00:30Again, Holiday looks like he is a go.

00:33He has practiced.

00:35He was not listed on the injury report.

00:37Neither is Jalen Brown.

00:39So for our person, it looks like it's a clean bill of health here for the entire Celtics roster.

00:45But again, we've seen some issues this year with the Knicks against elite teams.

00:51The Celtics are absolutely elite.

00:55They're going to need some things to go well.

00:58I'm not running to the window to back a Celtics team laying that kind of number at home this year.

01:04It has been a losing proposition.

01:06The Knicks are experienced.

01:08They are certainly, I think the Knicks' chances of making pay in this series happens early in this series.

01:15I think the longer the series goes, the depth and the shooting of Boston will be too much for the Knicks.

01:21But I would not be shocked if the Knicks have a chance to win this game in the final couple of minutes in Boston tonight.

01:28I wouldn't be shocked at that at all.

01:29I would be shocked at all.