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Basketball betting players must have thought that they were watching a boxing match or a UFC betting contest as Boston and Miami got physical in Game 1, resulting in a suspension for one of the Celtics’ “Big Three”. The two will meet for Game 2 on Tuesday, and the Heat will need to keep their heads cool to earn a split in Beantown. 

Heat vs Celtics odds – Tuesday, April 20, 8:00 PM ET

Quentin Richardson had 15 points in Miami’s 85-76 loss, but his biggest contribution came late in the fourth quarter, when he got involved with Boston’s Kevin Garnett. Richardson was tangled up with Paul Pierce, and Garnett came to his teammate’s defense. A scrum ensued and Garnett elbowed Richardson in the face to earn a one-game suspension. The Heat will be happy to see Garnett gone as they shot 39.7% from the field, and outside of Richardson and 26 points from Dwyane Wade, no Miami player scored more than eight points. The Heat was also thumped 52-36 in the paint.

Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers are favorites to be the faces in the NBA Betting Finals, but could force other candidates to interfere with that ambition in the long road to the title which begins tomorrow with the "play-off."

Eight clashes have this first round of the NBA betting playoffs, four in the East and an equal number in the West, with the decision to the best of seven games.

The Lakers multichampions will see them with inexperienced Oklahoma City Thunder, a young squad that advanced by the aim of Kevin Durant, the tournament's leading scorer, but will have a monumental task to subdue their more experienced rivals.

But the Lakers live a somewhat shady with injuries to Andrew Bynum, who missed the last 13 games of the regular season due to a strained Achilles tendon, and superstar Kobe Bryant, who also suffered a broken hand sore left shoulder and knee.

If the wishes of the majority would serve to validate forecasts, Kobe Bryant and Los Angeles Lakers played in the finals in June by the NBA betting title against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in a matchup that could break all records for television viewership.

But one thing is the desire and reality another. On the way the two superstars and their teams are rivals with a desire for revenge and thirst for coronation.

This happened last year, when the Orlando Magic ruined all odds and left off the end to Cleveland.

The basketball betting regular season ended on Wednesday. Today begins the play off, a ladder of three rounds before the final series between the champions of the East and West.

If you want to see their faces, the two favorite teams have to walk the postseason in all the work of months can go to the pipe on a bad day.