Thursday’s Top Sports Betting Matchups- April 28

A few NBA teams have already punched their ticket to the next round of the playoffs, but the start of the conference semifinals has been put on hold while there is still work to be done in the opening round. Vietbet has you covered when it comes to wagering on the games as the best NBA betting online sportsbook for US players.

The only matchup on this Thursday’s NBA slate is a crucial Game 6 showdown between the Atlanta Hawks and the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference. Both teams finished the regular season with identical 48-34 records but the Hawks won the tiebreak to gain home court advantage and so far in this best-of-seven series that has been the difference. Atlanta has won its three games at home straight-up with 2-1 record against the spread and Boston has gone 2-0 (SU and ATS) in its two home games.

VietBet has opened Atlanta as a slight 1.5-point road favorite for Thursday’s game at TD Garden in Boston with the total line set at 197. The Hawks closed as three-point road underdogs in a 111-103 loss in Game 3 and they lost Game 4 by a score of 104-95 as one-point road favorites. They bounced back in a big way with a 110-83 thrashing of the Celtics on Tuesday as 7.5-point favorites at home to take the 3-2 series lead. The total has stayed UNDER in four of the first five games.

Second round playoff action in the NHL’s Eastern Conference gets underway on Thursday with Game 1 of a best-of-seven Metro Division battle between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals. VietBet has listed the Penguins as +117 road underdogs in this series opener with the betting money line on Washington set at -129. The total for this game has been set at 5.

Pittsburgh made relatively short work of the New York Rangers in the opening round with a 4-1 series victory by a combined score of 21-10. The total went OVER or ended as a PUSH in four of the five games. Washington knocked-out Philadelphia in six games, but it had to sweat things out a bit after taking a commanding 3-0 series lead. The Capitals out-scored the Flyers 12-2 in those first three wins, but things tightened-up from there with the total staying UNDER in the next three games after the two teams only managed to score a combined six goals.

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