{"id":618734,"date":"2026-02-22T23:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/618734\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T23:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:24:15","slug":"celtics-vs-lakers-prediction-odds-line-time-2026-nba-picks-for-sunday-night-basketball-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/618734\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics vs. Lakers prediction, odds, line, time: 2026 NBA picks for Sunday Night Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NBA’s preeminent rivalry will have its next iteration on Sunday Night Basketball as the Boston Celtics<\/a> visit the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>. Boston (36-19) has won eight of its last 10, including a 121-110 Thursday victory over Golden State. L.A. (34-21) is coming off back-to-back victories, most recently a Friday triumph over the Clippers<\/a> by a 125-122 score. Boston leads the all-time series with 211 wins versus 166 losses. Both teams have clean injury reports.<\/p>\n

Tipoff is at 6:30 p.m. ET from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Boston has won the last two matchups, including a 126-105 victory on Dec. 5. The latest Celtics vs. Lakers odds list Boston as the 1.5-point favorite, with the over\/under at 230.5. Boston is at -117 on the money line (risk $117 to win $100), with Los Angeles priced at -102. Before making any Lakers vs. Celtics picks,\u00a0check out the NBA predictions and betting advice from the SportsLine Projection Model<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every NBA<\/a> game 10,000 times and has returned well over $10,000 in\u00a0betting<\/a>\u00a0profit for $100 players on its top-rated\u00a0NBA picks<\/a>\u00a0over the past eight-plus seasons. The model exited the NBA All-Star break on a sizzling 38-17 roll on top-rated NBA spread picks dating back to last season. Anyone following its\u00a0NBA betting<\/a>\u00a0advice at\u00a0sportsbooks<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0betting apps<\/a>\u00a0could have seen huge returns.<\/p>\n

Now, the model has simulated Lakers vs. Celtics<\/a> 10,000 times and just revealed its coveted NBA picks and betting predictions. You can head to SportsLine now to see the model’s picks<\/a>. Here are several NBA odds<\/a> and NBA betting<\/a> lines for Celtics vs. Lakers:<\/p>\n

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Celtics -1.5 at DraftKings Sportsbook<\/p>\n

Lakers vs. Celtics over\/under:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

230.5 points<\/p>\n

Lakers vs. Celtics money line:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Celtics -1117, Lakers -102<\/p>\n

Lakers vs. Celtics picks:\u00a0<\/p>\n

See picks at SportsLine<\/a><\/p>\n

Lakers vs. Celtics streaming:<\/p>\n

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Top Celtics vs. Lakers predictions for Sunday Night Basketball<\/p>\n

SportsLine’s model has simulated Lakers vs. Celtics 10,000 times and is going Over on the total (230.5 points). Their matchup a few weeks ago went Over with 231 combined points despite neither LeBron James<\/a> or Luka Doncic<\/a> playing. With or without them, the Lakers have heavily leaned over this season. The Over has a 31-24 record for L.A., with that 56.4% being the fourth-highest in the NBA.<\/p>\n

At Crypto.com Arena, the Over is 18-8 for the Lakers, which is the best home Over record in the league. As for Boston, it has eclipsed the total in each of its last two games, and the Celtics offense will be even more prolific over the rest of the season with Nikola Vucevic<\/a> now in the fold. SportsLine’s model projects the Over to hit in 64.4% of simulations with 238 combined points, making this side of the total an A-rated pick.<\/p>\n

How to make Lakers vs. Celtics picks on Sunday Night Basketball<\/p>\n

It also says one side of the spread hits almost 70% of the time.\u00a0You can head to SportsLine to see the model’s NBA picks<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So who wins Lakers vs. Celtics, and which side of the spread hits almost 70% of the time? Visit SportsLine now to see which side of the Celtics vs. Lakers spread to back, all from the model that has returned well over $10,000 on top-rated NBA picks<\/a>, and find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA’s preeminent rivalry will have its next iteration on Sunday Night Basketball as the Boston Celtics visit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,81643,81644,81645,66266,81646,81647,150,6,24770,57148,81649,81648,81650],"class_list":{"0":"post-618734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-celtics-lakers-odds","14":"tag-celtics-lakers-picks","15":"tag-celtics-lakers-prediction","16":"tag-lakers-celtics-odds","17":"tag-lakers-celtics-picks","18":"tag-lakers-celtics-prediction","19":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-nba-odds","22":"tag-nba-picks-today","23":"tag-sunday-night-basketball-odds","24":"tag-sunday-night-basketball-picks","25":"tag-sunday-night-basketball-prediction"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116116865990808458","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}