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00:00So will that close out be tonight, Steph?
00:02That is the question.
00:03As the Knicks take on the Celtics, no Tatum, of course.
00:06He's out for the year.
00:08Killy's surgery may be even out longer than that.
00:10So a two-part question here.
00:11Let's first start with the game tonight,
00:14and then let's get into where the future of the Celtics holds.
00:16Because the Celtics are still favored, even without Tatum tonight,
00:18by four and a half points.
00:20They played without Tatum and won some games without Tatum this season, too.
00:24I'm guessing if he played, the line probably would be seven and a half,
00:26eight, something like that.
00:28I think that's kind of what he's worth.
00:29With total 208 tonight, what do you think happens?
00:34I don't understand that one either at all.
00:36I mean, maybe it's like a sucker bet.
00:38I don't know.
00:39But if it was just Tatum that was the issue, sure,
00:43like maybe the Celtics would have a chance.
00:45But Jalen Brown has not played very well in this series either.
00:47He's dealing with a bone bruise in his knee that is really hampering him.
00:53Additionally, you don't know what you're going to get from Chris Epps Porzingis.
00:56He's been extremely ineffective.
00:58This mystery illness that he has, I mean, he just has not been able to make any sort of shots.
01:03His defensive presence also has been not as good as what the Celtics need.
01:07So I don't really see them overcoming all that stuff, plus the emotional burden of, you know,
01:13if you looked at their faces right after that injury, they all knew exactly what happened.
01:17And they were all pretty down.
01:20It's going to be tough for them to win tonight.
01:22All right.
01:24Let's take a look real quick at a potential step-up player for the Celtics, Steph.
01:28These are all odds on the FanDuel Sportsbook in terms of point scoring for individual players.
01:33Brown, White, Horford, Holiday, Pritchard, and Porzingis.
01:37I'll run them down just so we keep that up there a little longer so people can lock in.
01:4025-and-a-half for Brown, 18-and-a-half for White, 9-and-a-half for Horford, 11-and-a-half for Drew Holiday, Pritchard, 13-and-a-half, Porzingis, 15-and-a-half.
01:51Do you like any of those numbers, Steph?
01:53Do you have a prediction maybe on one or two that you think could go up or down?
01:55Maybe the over on Pritchard, I think he's going to have to step up and have more of a scoring role.
02:04Tatum led the team in scoring during the regular season, so they're definitely going to need that extra punch, and he should play more minutes, too, with Tatum out there.
02:13As far as unders, I mean, I talked about Porzingis.
02:15He's just been so bad in the series.
02:17You never know with his health.
02:19But, yeah, I guess that would be my best under, and Pritchard is my best over.