Indiana Pacers vs Boston Celtics Prediction: Boston Needs to Take Revenge

Prediction for the NBA Indiana Pacers vs Boston Celtics match will take place on February 24th. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available. 

Today's Pacers are a perfect team that made a lot of noise in the first half of this championship. However, the second half of the tournament shows that it is too early to write Indiana among the contenders for outstanding achievements. So out of the last 19 matches, Rick Carlisle's team has won only three. It is clear that with such results, getting to the Pacers' play-in zone will be complicated.

Almost from the beginning of the regular season, no one could beat Celtics from the first line of the Eastern Conference. Joe Mazzullo's team is effective and, most importantly, keeps results even due to injuries to the leading players. For example, on the eve of the match with Indiana, Boston won five out of six games, losing only in overtime to Milwaukee without four starting players and beating Philadelphia in this segment in the absence of Marcus Smart, Al Horford, and Jaylen Brown, who was injured at the very beginning of that meeting.

Boston starts in the second half of the championship in the strongest lineup. Marcus Smart and Jaylen Brown are returning from injuries, which will add efficiency to the team in terms of perimeter defense, as well as Al Horford, thanks to whom the Celts will become more variable in the attack. It means that Indiana has no chance of succeeding in the upcoming game. Moreover, Boston needs to take revenge on the Pacers for losing in the first meeting of the season series. We are betting on the Celtics and not the most productive match – Joe Mazzulla's team is among the best in the league in defense on the three-point line.