Washington at Boston

Both the Boston Celtics and the Washington Wizards held serve at home. Now we enter Game 5 knotted at two games apiece. It is how this series has played out this season as over the eight meetings this season, the home team has won all eight games. It makes it easy to look at Boston as a clear choice at home here in Game 5. The problem is that these teams have played the closest games of any teams in the league at home this season. Washington has won 13 times at home by fewer than six points. Boston has turned the trick 10 times, ranking first and second in the NBA for 2016. There is much on the line in this one, so I expect this one comes down to the wire with the home team prevailing. History falls in line with those thoughts, as we look back since the NBA playoffs began and see that when a series is tied 2-2 and the site sequence was HHAA (Boston), and W/L sequence was WWLL, the home team is 20-5 SU in the second round. Play Boston on the moneyline.