Injuries are suiting up well for Jrue Holiday. Last game when he played without Porzingis, Holiday racked up 7 rebounds and 9 assists. Joel Embiid is also questionable, which bodes well for him. Holiday is averaging 13 rebounds and assists in his last 13 games. Our model makes this game total 230, implying a fast pace game with plenty of opportunity.

Sixers-Celtics games rarely turn into racehorse basketball, with a lot of half-court sets and draining the shot clock usually keeping the scorelines down (neither of the first two meetings this season cleared 224, nor did the last six games, in regulation time, of their hammers-and-tongs playoff series last May. Moreover, both teams might be shorthanded tonight, Boston definitely so with Kristaps Porzingis (calf) already ruled out, and Philly perhaps so with Joel Embiid having missed the morning shootaround after being absent on Wednesday vs. New Orleans due to illness. Whatever the lineups, the trendlines of this series suggest it is going to be hard work for the scoreline to reach tonight's magic number of 225. Play Sixers-Celtics "Under"