BetUS Sportsbook is back with our NBA Finals betting picks for the sixth, and what could be the final game of the NBA season, as the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers duke it out in Tinseltown in Game 6. The Celtics have turned a pair of one game deficits into a 3-2 series lead by winning both Games 4 and 5 at TD Banknorth Garden, and now, they are just one victory away from becoming champions of the world for the second time in three seasons.
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Boston Celtics (65-39, 48-54-2 ATS) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (71-32, 44-56-3 ATS)
Game Date/Time: Tuesday, June 15th, 9:00 ET
Game Location: Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA
TV/Radio Broadcast: ABC, TSN, Sirius

NBA Finals Betting Odds: Boston Celtics +6.5 vs. Los Angeles Lakers -6.5: Game Total 187.5

It’s not often that a team can hold Los Angeles under 95 points in four straight games, but that’s exactly what the C’s have done and why they are on the verge of winning the title this year. In Game 5, HC Doc Rivers went under the mentality that G Kobe Bryant was going to get his points and make his shots, but that the rest of the team was going to be held under wraps. Mission accomplished! If you discount the 13/27 and 38 points that Kobe put up in Game 5, the rest of the team combined shot just 35.3 percent from the field and scored just 48 total points. The only man to reach double digits in scoring in purple and gold aside from Bryant was F Pau Gasol, who had a dozen points and a dozen boards.

For Boston, F Paul Pierce played his most important game of the season, shooting 12/21 from the field and scoring a team high 27 points. F Kevin Garnett had 18 points and ten rebounds in one of his best efforts in the series. G Rajon Rondo is back on the horse after a bad Game 4, as he scored 18 points on 9/12 from the floor with eight assists and five rebounds.

NBA Finals Insider Tip: The Celtics are 12-4-1 ATS in their L/17 NBA betting battles against the Lakers.

All season long, the Celtics have been told what they can’t do. They couldn’t figure out how to win games at home. They couldn’t overcome being the #4 seed in the Eastern Conference. They couldn’t stop LeBron James and the Cavs. They couldn’t figure out how to cope with the Orlando Magic. There was no way that they were going to be able to finish off the Magic in Game 6 after losing Games 4 and 5. They weren’t going to stop Kobe and the Lakers in the Finals. Now, Boston is staring two major trends in the face. No team has ever beaten a HC Phil Jackson coached squad after falling behind 1-0 in a series, and no team has ever won an NBA Finals in the 2-3-2 format after losing Game 3 to fall behind 2-1 in the series. That all ends tonight! The Celtics are our NBA Finals pick to win it all on Tuesday.

My NBA Playoff Prediction: Boston by 8
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BetUS Sportsbook begins wrapping up the basketball season with NBA Finals betting action beginning on Thursday night in Tinseltown. The Lakers reached this point in the season by dismissing the Oklahoma City Thunder, Utah Jazz, and Phoenix Suns from the Western Conference playoffs.
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Boston took care of the Miami Heat with no difficulties and ultimately also disposed of two of the three top favorites to win it all from when the postseason started in the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Orlando Magic.

Boston Celtics (62-37, 45-52-2 ATS) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (69-29, 42-53-3 ATS) – Game Date/Time: Thursday, June 3rd, 9:00 ET – Game Location: Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA – TV/Radio Broadcast: ABC, TSN, Sirius

NBA Finals Odds: Boston Celtics +5.5 vs. Los Angeles Lakers -5.5: Game Total 191.5

In order for the Celtics to bring back the memories of an NBA Finals victory over LA from two years ago, their “Big Four” are going to have to play like four superstars. This feels like a team that needs to get more production, particularly out of F Paul Pierce offensively. Pierce did score 30+ points in two of the final three games of the Eastern Conference Finals, but 19.1 points per game just doesn’t feel like it is cutting it, particularly if F Kevin Garnett is only going to average 14.9 points per game like he has in the playoffs to date.

Role players are going to be critical for Boston. C Kendrick Perkins is only averaging 5.6 points and 6.4 rebounds per game in the first three rounds of these playoffs, and he is just one technical foul away from being suspended for a game in the Finals.

It’s going to take the efforts of some secondary players for the Lakers to be called champs as well. C Andrew Bynum recently had his knee drained of fluid in attempt to try to put him in a better condition to play in the NBA Finals than he was in the Western Conference Finals when he scored just 7.2 points per game.

However, as long as G Kobe Bryant is doing his thing, the purple and gold are going to be tough to beat. It was clearly “Kobe Time” against the Suns, as the star of the Lakers for the last decade was up to his old tricks again, scoring 30+ points in five of the six games and nearly recording three triple-doubles.

NBA Finals Insider Tip: The Celtics are 9-2-1 ATS in their L/12 NBA betting clashes with the Lakers.

Boston has been the team that has just refused to accept the logic of, “You can’t do that” all postseason long. This may be a completely different type of task trying to shut down Kobe and the gang, but we expect this to be a very, very close series.

This is a winnable game for the Celtics. However, we think that they’ll fall just short. Boston and the points are still the way to go in NBA Finals betting action in Game 1.

My NBA Playoff Prediction: Los Angeles by 3
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