With the 2015-16 NBA Season rolling on through the season, this Sunday the 24th of January 2016 we have a very interesting game for the fans with the 23-21 Boston Celtics playing the 6-38 Philadelphia 76ers with the game tip-off at 7 PM ET and the game played at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and at this writing the lines were not available.
In this game the Boston Celtics will be traveling to Pennsylvania to the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia to face off with the Philadelphia 76ers for this big game. This game originally was to be played on Saturday but with the weather man not co-operating the game was postponed and rescheduled for Sunday evening. This season in the 2 games between the 76ers and the Celtics, the Celtics have won both of those games, with the last time they played was on the 26th of November 2015 in which the Boston Celtics defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 85-81. The star in that game for the Celtics with 31 points and 7 assists was I. Thomas, and he was accompanied in the scoring bye J. Okaforers of Philly have only managed winning 6 games, winning 2 of their ultimate 3 games and recently they have had may close losses.
Meanwhile in their last game the Boston Celtics topped the Bulls of Chicago by a slim margin of 9 points 110-101, and that was on Friday night of last week. At one point in the game the Celtics were leading by 15 points, and never were losing in the game. The Bulls on their part then reduced their deficit to just 1 point with less than 4 minutes remaining in that game, but then Boston had a 14-6 streak led by I. Thomas who for the game had 23 points and 6 assists. Also, the Celtics A. Bradley had 5 steals in that game and scored some 22 points for the game. The Celtics for the game had a 46 % completion from the court while only allowing the Bulls to shoot 41 % from the court. At home in this 2015-16 seasons the Boston has 12 wins and 10 losses to date.
Meanwhile the Philadelphia 76ers in their last games upset the Magic of Orlando and we say upset as it was only the 76ers 6th win this season as the overcame the Magic this past Wednesday night 96-87 as their new star Okafor completed 9 of his 17 shots for 20 points. As the game moved toward the 4th quarter the 76ers led that quarter at 34-25 over the Magic and that gave them a 10 point lead as the game moved into the 4th quarter. Their H. Thompson also had a good game as the made 7 of 10 for 18 points as a substitute coming off the bench. The 76ers managed to overcome the fact that they made 14 turnovers and only had a 48% from the floor, but still won the game. Leading the team was I. Smith with 12 assist and 14 points, and that in his ultimate 5 games was his 3rd double- double this season. This season the Philadelphia team on the road has 3 wins and 22 losses.
The online sportsbook prediction for this game with the Celtics at the 76ers will see the Celtics have an easy victory over the 76er in this Sunday game.