New Look Celtics Open Season at Cavaliers

Cavaliers and Celtics Retooled for 2017-18 Season

The Boston Celtics and the Cleveland Cavaliers will open the 2017-18 NBA Season on Tuesday when they meet at Quicken Loans Arena. The game will be televised by TNT. Tip-off is set for 8 pm.

Cleveland's trade of Kyrie Irving to Boston for Isaiah Thomas, Jae Crowder, rookie center Ante Zizic and two draft picks in August was the league's biggest deal of the summer. It adds a lot of intrigue to the first game of the NBA's season.

The Cavs and Celtics were already the top two teams in the Eastern Conference. Cleveland is the team that  bounced Boston from the conference finals last season. It only took 5 games, also.

Oddsmakers opened the Cavaliers as -5.5-point favorites versus the Celtics, while the game's total opened at 216.5. The line has moved to where the Cavaliers are now a 4-point favorite. The total has dropped to 212.

Celtics Added Hayward as well to Revamped Lineup

The Celtics added Irving,who is a four-time All-Star. He averaged a career-high 25.2 points and shot a career-best 47.3 percent last season. They also picked up Gordon Hayward. He averaged a career-high 21.9 points for the Utah Jazz last season. The Celtics signed him to a four-year, $128 million free agent contract.

To get Irving and Hayward into the fold, and make the salaries work under the salary cap, the Celtics traded Isaiah Thomas and Crowder to Cleveland. They also dealt Avery Bradley to the Detroit Pistons for forward Marcus Morris.

Cavaliers Added Firepower as well

Cleveland not only added Thomas and Crowder. They also added Derrick Rose, Dwyane Wade, who is a 12-time All-Star, and former Celtic Jeff Green as rotation players. Thomas has a right hip injury that is expected to keep him out for two months.

James sprained his left ankle in training camp. Tyronn Lue said Monday he still didn't know if the superstar would play in the opener.

James has never missed a season opener in his first 14 years in the league.

The Cavs are planning a video tribute to Irving. He made the game-winning 3-pointer in Game 7 of the 2016 Finals to hand the organization its first championship.

 

Recent Form

Name	Record	ATS	Offense	Defense	Diff	ATS Home	ATS Away	OU Record	OU Home	OU Away
Boston	62-38	52-47-1	107.51	105.87	1.64	22-29	30-18-1	48-48-4	29-19-3	19-29-1
Cleveland	64-36	44-51-5	111.40	107.36	4.04	22-25-2	22-26-3	60-38-2	30-17-2	30-21

Power Stats

Assists Turnovers
Name	Assists	Turnovers	Ratio
BOS	25.54	12.72	2.01
CLE	22.55	13.12	1.72

Rebounding
Name	Offense	Defense	Total
BOS	9.13	32.09	41.22
CLE	9.38	34.13	43.51

ShootingPercentage
Name	Offense	Defense	Differential
BOS	45.46	45.45	0.01
CLE	47.43	45.76	1.67

Team Records

Boston Celtics

Name	Record	Home	Away	ATS	ATS Home	ATS Away	Offense	Defense	Diff
Overall	62-38	35-16	27-22	52-47-1	22-29	30-18-1	107.51	105.87	1.64
Last 10	3-7	2-3	1-4	5-5	2-3	3-2	102.20	113.70	-11.50
vs Div	11-5	6-2	5-3	4-12	1-7	3-5	108.31	104.50	3.81
vs EAST	45-25	25-11	20-14	37-32-1	16-20	21-12-1	107.49	105.81	1.68
vs WEST	17-13	10-5	7-8	15-15	6-9	9-6	107.57	106.00	1.57

Cleveland Cavaliers

Name	Record	Home	Away	ATS	ATS Home	ATS Away	Offense	Defense	Diff
Overall	64-36	37-12	27-24	44-51-5	22-25-2	22-26-3	111.40	107.36	4.04
Last 10	5-5	2-2	3-3	4-5-1	1-3	3-2-1	117.60	111.00	6.60
vs Div	12-8	8-2	4-6	7-12-1	4-6	3-6-1	108.40	106.70	1.70
vs EAST	47-18	24-8	23-10	32-29-4	13-17-2	19-12-2	112.69	106.25	6.44
vs WEST	17-18	13-4	4-14	12-22-1	9-8	3-14-1	109.00	109.43	-0.43

Supergrid

Title	Stat	Rank	Stat	Rank
Away Team Overall Scoring vs Home Team Overall Defense	107.51	9	107.36	20
Away Team Away Scoring vs Home Team Home Defense	105.55	9	105.27	18
Away Team Road Rebounds vs Home Team Home Rebounds Allowed	40.02	29	42.00	12
Home Team Overall Scoring vs Away Team Overall Defense	111.40	4	105.87	15
Home Team Home Scoring vs Away Team Road Defense	113.45	4	104.73	10
Home Team Home Rebounds vs Away Team Road Rebounds Allowed	44.33	13	44.67	20

Head To Head Summary

Team	record	ATS	O/U	AVG	AVG ½	FG%	REB	3PT	steals
Boston	2-8	4-5-1	6-4	103.90	61.70	50.36	43.90	134/343	7.30
Cleveland	8-2	5-4-1	6-4	118.70	48.90	44.99	37.40	112/322	7.20

Head To Head Detail

Date	Away	away score	Home	home score	line	ATS	Total	O/U	FG% Edge	Reb Edge	3PT Edge	Away Half Score	Home Half Score	Away FG%	Home FG%	Away Rebounds	Home Rebounds	Away Three Pointers	Home Three Pointers	Away Steals	Home Steals
May 25, 2017	CLE	135	BOS	102	9.5	CLE	213.5	O	CLE	BOS	CLE	75	57	56.5	43	38	39	19/41	11/30	13	7
May 23, 2017	BOS	99	CLE	112	-15.5	BOS	216	U	CLE	CLE	Push	57	47	44.3	59.5	29	37	10/31	10/22	7	5
May 21, 2017	BOS	111	CLE	108	-16	BOS	214	O	BOS	CLE	BOS	50	66	46.2	45.7	38	46	18/40	16/39	10	5
May 19, 2017	CLE	130	BOS	86	5	CLE	219	U	CLE	CLE	CLE	72	31	56.5	37.2	45	39	19/39	8/27	10	7
May 17, 2017	CLE	117	BOS	104	4	CLE	218.5	O	CLE	CLE	BOS	61	39	48.1	46.6	44	40	11/31	12/38	9	4
Apr 5, 2017	CLE	114	BOS	91	-4	CLE	222	U	CLE	CLE	CLE	57	42	46.7	40.7	51	38	11/36	7/33	7	6
Mar 1, 2017	CLE	99	BOS	103	-1.5	BOS	224	U	BOS	BOS	BOS	50	49	40.7	46.2	41	47	10/33	13/31	3	4
Dec 29, 2016	BOS	118	CLE	124	-6	Push	217	O	CLE	CLE	CLE	59	66	50.6	51.8	29	46	12/37	14/38	15	7
Nov 3, 2016	BOS	122	CLE	128	-10.5	BOS	207	O	BOS	CLE	CLE	51	68	48.4	48.2	38	44	11/32	14/34	4	6
Mar 5, 2016	BOS	103	CLE	120	-8	CLE	210	O	CLE	CLE	Push	54	55	46.3	51.2	37	47	10/23	10/30	8	8

NBA Betting Trends

Boston Celtics
Boston is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games
Boston is 7-2 ATS in its last 9 games on the road
Boston is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Boston's last 8 games on the road
Boston is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Cleveland
Boston is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games when playing Cleveland
Boston is 5-1-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
Boston is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Boston's last 5 games when playing on the road against Cleveland

Cleveland Cavaliers
Cleveland is 1-3-1 ATS in its last 5 games
Cleveland is 13-5 SU in its last 18 games
Cleveland is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Cleveland's last 6 games
Cleveland is 3-7 ATS in its last 10 games at home
Cleveland is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Cleveland's last 8 games at home
Cleveland is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Boston
Cleveland is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Boston
Cleveland is 1-5-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing at home against Boston
Cleveland is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Boston
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Cleveland's last 5 games when playing at home against Boston

Team Last 5 Games

Boston Celtics

Date	Opponent	score	Result	line	Total	ATS Result	field goal percentage	free throw percentage	three pointers	Location
May 25, 2017	CLE	102-135	L	9.5	213.5	L/O	43.02	73.91	11	H
May 23, 2017	CLE	99-112	L	15.5	216	W/U	44.30	95.00	10	A
May 21, 2017	CLE	111-108	W	16	214	W/O	46.15	75.00	18	A
May 19, 2017	CLE	86-130	L	5	219	L/U	37.21	93.33	8	H
May 17, 2017	CLE	104-117	L	4	218.5	L/O	46.59	55.56	12	H

Cleveland Cavaliers

Date	Opponent	score	Result	line	Total	ATS Result	field goal percentage	free throw percentage	three pointers	Location
Jun 12, 2017	GS	120-129	L	9	231.5	P/O	53.41	65.22	11	A
Jun 9, 2017	GS	137-116	W	5	227	W/O	52.87	67.74	24	H
Jun 7, 2017	GS	113-118	L	3.5	227	L/O	44.44	84.00	12	H
Jun 4, 2017	GS	113-132	L	9	221.5	L/O	45.00	78.95	8	A
Jun 1, 2017	GS	91-113	L	7.5	225	L/U	34.88	80.00	11	A

Next up:
Boston home to Milwaukee Wednesday, October 18
Cleveland at Milwaukee Friday, October 20

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