{"id":260,"date":"2024-05-21T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogv2.highbet.com\/boston-celtics-vs-indiana-pacers-game-1-highbet-preview-nba-playoffs-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T08:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:16:52","slug":"boston-celtics-indiana-pacers-game-1-highbet-preview-nba-playoffs-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/boston-celtics-indiana-pacers-game-1-highbet-preview-nba-playoffs-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics vs Pacers \u2013 Game 1 \u2013 highbet NBA Playoffs Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who\u2019s going to win Game 1?! The Boston Celtics welcome the Indiana Pacers in their opening game in the series that leads to the Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics started the playoffs by eliminating the Miami Heat by 4-1. Then, they faced the Cleveland Cavaliers and once again the Celtics won the series by 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers on the other hand started the playoff journey against the Milwaukee Bucks. In this exciting series, the Pacers won by 4-2. Then, they faced the New York Knicks. This match-up turned into a 7 game series drama in which the Pacers beat the Knicks by 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>However, now both the Celtics and Pacers are starting from zero, so it will be very interesting to see who will step into the series with a triumphal performance in TD Garden.<\/p>\n<h2 >Highbet predictions:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/prematch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u041carket: TOTALS &#8211; Tip: Under 220.5<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/prematch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Market: PLAYER POINTS &#8211; Tip: Jayson Tatum Under (29.5)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/prematch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u041carket: PLAYER POINTS &#8211; Tip: Pascal Siakam Over (20.5)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 >H2H Brief History<\/h2>\n<p>Back in January, these squads played 3 duels between each other. In the first game that took place in Indianapolis, the Celtics won the road game by 101:118. Then, in the second duel, the Pacers won by 133:131. In their last match-up in Boston, the Celtics won the home game by 129:124.<\/p>\n<h2 >Verdict<\/h2>\n<p>We anticipate a tough game with a significant focus on the defense. The favorite for the win will be the Boston Celtics because of their home arena\u2019s advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Highbet offers you the best odds for the biggest sports events globally!<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/promotions\" style=\"text-decoration:none\">go ahead<\/a>, check out the Highbet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/prematch\" style=\"text-decoration:none\">betting offer<\/a> for this NBA game, pick your prediction, and enjoy the NBA Playoffs even more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who\u2019s going to win Game 1?! The Boston Celtics welcome the Indiana Pacers in their opening game in the series that leads to the Eastern Conference Finals. The Celtics started the playoffs by eliminating the Miami Heat by 4-1. Then, they faced the Cleveland Cavaliers and once again the Celtics won the series by 4-1. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6908,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/6908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}