2024 NBA Playoffs: Boston Celtics At Indiana Pacers Game 4 Betting Card

The Indiana Pacers (0-3) try to keep their season alive when hosting the Boston Celtics (3-0) for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals on Monday in the 2024 NBA playoffs. Tip-off at Gainbridge Fieldhouse is 8 p.m. ET. Boston stole Game 3 by mounting a double-digit second-half comeback Saturday to beat Indiana 114-111. 

Pacers All-Star PG Tyrese Haliburton missed Game 3 with a hamstring injury and will sit Monday too. Celtics All-Stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are the two best players in the Eastern Conference finals. Tatum and Brown are scoring 61.7 points per game (PPG) in this series on 50.0% field-goal shooting. 

Boston Celtics SF Jaylen Brown posts up Indiana Pacers PF Pascal Siakam in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals in the 2024 NBA Playoffs at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. (Trevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports)

Boston Celtics at Indiana Pacers Game 4 Bet Slip 

The odds are the best available as of 4 p.m. ET Monday, May 27th

• 1.10 units (u) on CELTICS -7.5 (-110) at DraftKings.
• 0.25u on Pacers C Myles Turner OVER 17.5 points (+100) at DraftKings.
• 0.29u on Indiana SG Andrew Nembhard UNDER 16.5 points (-115) at FanDuel.

Boston Celtics -7.5 (-110) over Indiana Pacers 

Indy covered in its Game 1 and 3 losses and should've won both outright. As a result, there's more action on Indiana for Game 4. However, knowing their season is pretty much finished, I could see the Pacers rolling over in Game 4. 

There's a saying in sports betting that goes, "Public underdogs get slaughtered". Finally, Indiana is losing in three of the "four factors" in this series: Effective field goal shooting, turnover differential, and free-throw attempt rate. 

Pacers C Myles Turner OVER 17.5 points (+100) 

Turner has been giving Celtics starting C Al Horford "the business" in the conference finals. The nine-year veteran is averaging 17.7 PPG this series on 58.3% shooting and 45.5% from behind the arc. He's scored 23 and 22 points in Games 1 and 3. Celtics C Al Horford is guarding Turner in this series and Horford is the worst defender in Boston's starting 5. 

Also, the Over for Turner's point-prop is even-money at DraftKings but -122 at Pinnacle Sportsbook. Pinnacle is a "market-making" oddsmaker the legal U.S. shop typically copies, so I'd expect DraftKings to make Turner's Over pricier as tip-off nears. 

Indy SG Andrew Nembhard UNDER 16.5 points (-115) 

This is another instance of "off-market" pricing. Pinnacle has Nembhard's point-prop at 15.5. Whereas DraftKings, Caesars, and FanDuel have it at 16.5 albeit with heavy juice on the Under, and a full point is a lot when gambling on player props. 

Pacers SG Andrew Nembhard gets a layup on the Boston Celtics during Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals in the 2024 NBA Playoffs at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indiana. (Trevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports)

Furthermore, this is a "buy low" spot for Nembhard, who scored a career-high 32 points in Game 3 against the Celtics. Nembhard has scored more than 16 points in just four of his 16 games this postseason. Lastly, since Haliburton isn't playing Friday, the Celtics will use more defensive bandwidth to stop Nembhard. 

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