Henry Roldán
The Suns vs Celtics interconference matchup is one of eight games the NBA has scheduled for next Friday.
Phoenix is coming off a 132-100 home loss to the Hawks, while Boston crushed the Nets 96-139 on Wednesday night. Without further ado, at JefeBet we bring you the best preview of the stellar match between the Phoenix Suns vs Boston Celtics.
Predictions, Odds, and Betting Preview for the Phoenix Suns vs Boston Celtics NBA Regular Season Game on February 3, 2023
- Where: TD Garden – Boston, Massachusetts.
- When: Friday, February 3, 2023, 7:30 PM E.T.
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Betting on the Phoenix Suns
- Regular season record:27-26.
The Suns closed out a seven-game home stand in the worst possible way and will begin a five-game road trip against Eastern Conference teams on Friday, starting with Boston.
Phoenix has taken advantage of its experience and won six of its past eight games, remaining in the Western Conference Play-in places after dropping 18 of 24 games and running into postseason jeopardy.
Of course, this Eastern tour won’t be easy at all, given that they’ll be against tough opponents such as the Celtics, Nets, and the Hawks; however, it is expected that by next Tuesday, when they visit Brooklyn, they will be able to have Devin Booker back.
Since the Suns’ 112.9 points per game rank as the 11th lowest in the league, consistency on offense has been their biggest issue this season. This issue was made worse by Booker’s extended absence.
While Phoenix is the fifth team that allows the fewest points per game, only Booker averages more than 20 points on offense per game and in the last 16 games the team has six games under 100 points.
Betting on the Boston Celtics
- Regular season record:37-15.
With their second consecutive victory, the Celtics consolidated their position on Wednesday as not only the best team in the Eastern Conference, but also in the entire NBA.
The finalists from last season humiliated their city rivals by 43 points, and things might get a lot better now that five of their upcoming seven games will be played at TD Garden.
The Boston Celtics’ season is impressive despite a recent dip that saw them drop three straight games, and they are still two and a half games clear of the Milwaukee Bucks for the conference lead.
Boston is the third-best team in the league in average points per game with 117.8, something that makes going through games much easier. They are the squad with the best free throw percentage (83%), and they have the sixth-fewest turnovers (13.5), according to the data that distinguishes them from their opponents.
In terms of defense, Joe Mazzulla’s club has kept the opposition to fewer than 100 points in three of their previous five games, in addition to being the team that sends its opponents to the free-throw line less frequently. In the two games that they failed to do it, the game went to overtime.
JefeBet Prediction
[To be determined].
