Tyrese Maxey<\/a> due to the weakness of their frontcourt defenders on the perimeter, but the star 76ers guard has gashed those looks en route to averaging 26.3 points and 6.5 assists in this series.<\/p>\nSpeaking of frontcourt defense, Boston\u2019s interior defenders are its biggest weakness, and that has been exploited by Embiid thoroughly since his return.<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s just too much in Philadelphia\u2019s favor heading into Game 7 for this matchup to not be at least close down the wire, which should result in a 76ers cover with this large point spread.<\/p>\n
Second Pick: Carolina Hurricanes -1.5 over Philadelphia Flyers<\/p>\n
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Carolina Hurricanes left wing Jordan Martinook (48) scores during the 2nd period of the game against the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday, March 23rd, 2025, at Honda Center in Anaheim, CA.<\/p>\n
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Carolina Hurricanes left wing Jordan Martinook (48) scores during the 2nd period of the game against the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday, March 23rd, 2025, at Honda Center in Anaheim, CA.<\/p>\n
Rundown: All four games between these two teams in the regular season went to overtime, which would make you expect a very tightly-contested series.<\/p>\n
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However, the Hurricanes pulled it out in three of said contests, and are coming in with much fresher legs following Round 1.<\/p>\n
Carolina swept through the Ottawa Senators in the first round, while Philadelphia took an extra two games to finish off the Pittsburgh Penguins.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes never trailed once in their first round series, in large part due to receiving elite play in the cage from Frederik Andersen, who recorded a .963 save percentage with 1.67 goals saved above average per 60 minutes.<\/p>\n
If there was ever a time for a decisive victory in this series, it would be this one, as the red-hot Hurricanes roll over the Flyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four games into the Boston Celtics \u2013 Philadelphia 76ers series, it did not look like we were at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4830,6757,2242,4821,264818,5488,5555,250888,355,1319,2085,2113,1789,1790,99,208168,7639],"class_list":["post-619685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-baylor-scheierman","tag-boston-celtics","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-frederik-andersen","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-joel-embiid","tag-jordan-martinook","tag-nba","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sports","tag-the-76ers","tag-tyrese-maxey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}