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We’ve entered the third season of the annual South Point-lined Play of the Day competition, effective July 1.
Starting bankrolls have reset to $10,000, with the maximum bet being to win $1,000 and the minimum wager $300. Ray Brewer won the 2015-2016 season, after Taylor Bern prevailed in 2014-2015. Bern stepped away in the middle of the 2016-2017 season with a 16-12 record and $13,317 bankroll, with Mike Grimala taking his place.
Boston Celtics minus-5 vs. Washington Wizards: $550 to win $500
The Celtics and Wizards meet tonight in only the second game seven of these NBA playoffs, and judging by the trends, the game is already over. The home team has won all six games of the series and covered the spread in all but one.
So tonight, Isaiah Thomas and the Celtics are favored by 5 points, which is pretty much status quo for the series. Every closing line through six games has fallen between 4 and 5 points.
Washington has been absolutely abysmal on the road this postseason. The Wizards are 1-5 straight up and against the spread and have lost by double digits in all five defeats. That doesn’t come to much of a surprise, though, considering they entered the postseason with the fourth-worst road record of the 16 teams to qualify for the playoffs (only Indiana, Portland and Chicago were worse).
I don’t see why that changes tonight, so I’m riding the hot hand of the home team. As bad as Washington has been on the road, Boston has been equally as impressive at home since inexplicably dropping the first two games of the postseason to Chicago.
In the 126 game sevens in NBA history, the home team has won 101 of them. I think Thomas and the Celtics continue that dominance tonight and cover the 5 points.
Grimala (9-13, $8,753), Granger (15-19-1, $8,667), Brewer (31-31-1, $7,425), Keefer (43-39-3, $7,180)
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