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The Boston Celtics at Los Angeles Lakers 2008 NBA Finals Game 3: After escaping what could have been the biggest comeback in NBA Finals history, the Boston Celtics will take their 2-0 lead over the struggling Los Angeles Lakers to the Staples Center in LA, Tuesday night. Tip off is scheduled for just after 9 pm on the east, and can be seen on ABC Sports. No one cover the 2008 NBA Finals like SportsBetting.com, who has the home team, the Los Angeles Lakers a -9½ betting odds favorite to win game 3 against the Boston Celtics +9½. The Boston Celtics have protected home court like they were supposed to, and in-turn have taken a commanding 2-0 lead over a young LA Lakers team in the 2008 NBA Finals. The series now shifts to the Staples Center in Tensile Town, where the Lakers are 8-0 so far in these 2008 playoffs. Sportsbetting.com has the Over/Under between the Boston Celtics at Los Angeles Lakers 2008 NBA Finals Game 3 set a combined 195½ total points.  Game 3 is an absolute must-win for LA, if they want to keep their hopes of attaining the franchise's 15th NBA championship alive. In game 2, all questions were pretty much answered about Paul Pierce’s “injured knee”. Pierce was moving as though that “pop” in his right knee had never occurred, almost two games ago. Other questions have also been answered in these 2008 NBA Finals. The favoritism in fouls called, and the double-digit free-throw disparity (between these two ball clubs) finally reached a point where it is impossible for the players and the coaches to ignore. Superstar calls and home court advantage whistles, have all been a part of the NBA's everyday application for over a decade now. And thus, this series is no different. In game 2 alone, the home team Celtics attempted an incredible 38 free throws to the visiting Lakers’ 10. And if that number is not obvious enough, here is one that is: so far after 3 games of this Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers 2008 NBA Finals, the Celtics have attempted an impossible 73 free-throws at home, to the Lakers’ 38 on the road. Consequently, if there’s one thing I can predict for the Boston Celtics at Los Angeles Lakers NBA Finals game 3, is that (of course by the Lakers being home) all of the sudden we will see yellow jerseys make way more visits to the charity stripe than in any of the 2 previous games played in Boston. NBA Finals Game 3 Prediction: Lakers win, but Boston makes it closer than 10; BOS +9.5
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