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Boston -1½ -110 over Philadelphia

8:00 PM EST. Philadelphia's last nine games have been played in nine different cities. Read that again. Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, and now back home for Boston, which means the 76ers have not played two consecutive games in the same place in over two weeks. Every single night has come with a flight attached, a new hotel, a new shootaround gym, another time the body has to reset. Teams absorb that for three or four games. By the ninth, it lives in the legs, in the closeouts that arrive a step late, in the fourth quarter shots that come up short, in the home crowd wondering why a 9-2 team looks flat in its own building. That is the spot Boston walks into tonight, and it is the whole handicap.

Boston is everything Philadelphia is not right now: rested, healthy and rolling. The Celtics have a completely clean injury report, a league best calibre offence humming at a 117.7 rating, and a three game win streak. Jayson Tatum is scoring 24.4 a night, Paul George 18.4, and the shooting comes from everywhere, which stretches a tired defence until it snaps. Best of all, Sunday in Milwaukee was a cruise, a 117-97 win where Tatum never played the fourth quarter and George barely did, followed by a full day off on Monday. Philadelphia, meanwhile, has no safety net behind Joel Embiid, with its entire backup frontcourt, Adem Bona, Dominick Barlow and Ariel Hukporti, all out, leaving a worn down rotation one foul troubled night from collapse. A point and a half is a coin flip price, and the coin is weighted: the fresh team, the deep team, the healthy team, catching the travellers in the last game of a nine city odyssey.

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