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NBA playoff betting: Celtics are significant favorites over Heat to win the East

The Celtics don’t have homecourt advantage against the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference finals but are still significant favorites to win the East.

Boston is at -160 at BetMGM to go to the NBA Finals after beating the Milwaukee Bucks 109-81 in Game 7 of their conference semifinal matchup on Sunday. Boston pulled away in the second half thanks to a massive disparity in three-point shooting.

The Celtics were 22-of-55 from behind the arc as Grant Williams was 7-of-18 from three. The Bucks were a hard-to-believe 4-of-33 from deep as Bobby Portis was the only Milwaukee player to make multiple threes.