The 76ers are hosting the Celtics on Tuesday night for the first clash of the season between these rivals. On DraftKings Sportsbook, Boston is favored by 1.5 points and this game carries a total of 216.5 points.
Below, I dive into three of my favorite prop bets on DraftKings Sportsbook for this matchup.
76ers vs. Celtics Props on DraftKings Sportsbook
Payton Pritchard U 12.5 Points (-112)
Pritchard looked poised for a career-best season with Jaylen Brown traded to the 76ers, but that hasn’t exactly panned out. Pritchard is averaging 12.3 PPG on a career-worst 41% field-goal percentage. Last season, Pritchard averaged a career-best 17 PPG.
Pritchard has fallen short of 12.5 points in 7-of-10 games, including four outings of single-digit points. Throughout his career, Pritchard has had a tendency to pick on bad teams, but struggle against good teams and this has been on full display this season. Pritchard has only topped 20 points twice and both these performances came against the Bulls, who are 1-8 and rank dead last in defensive rating. In his three matchups with teams with winning records, Pritchard has scored 17, four and four points.
Now, Pritchard meets a 76ers team that is 9-2 and ranks sixth in defensive rating, and it’s hard to have much confidence in him in this tough spot.
Jayson Tatum O 6.5 Assists (-132)
While the 76ers are a strong defensive group, this line is just too low for Tatum, who is having a career-best season as a playmaker. The forward is leading the Celtics with 7.8 assists per game. Before this, his best average was 6.0 assists per game in 2024-25.
Tatum is averaging 12.8 potential assists per game, which ranks ninth in the NBA. The Duke product has finished with 7+ assists in 7-of-9 games and those two outliers were blowout wins for Boston that Tatum saw less than 30 minutes in.
Tonight’s matchup is very unlikely to be a lopsided affair with the Celtics only favored by 1.5 points on DraftKings Sportsbook and Tatum should see around 35 minutes in this nail-biter, giving him a terrific chance to clear 6.5 assists.
Anfernee Simons U 6.5 Points (-110)
Simons is averaging 9.0 PPG this season, but this is very misleading. This average is heavily inflated by a three-game stretch last month in which Simons scored 20, 21 and 19 points. Jaylen Brown missed one of these games, and Joel Embiid and LeBron James missed another, so Simons benefited from extra usage.
All of the 76ers’ starters will be available tonight and outside of that three-game stretch, Simons has stayed under 6.5 points in 7-of-8 games. The guard is shooting 38% from the field and handling a 17.2% usage rate this season, both of which are career lows. Additionally, with Philadelphia at full strength, Simons has logged less than 20 minutes in three consecutive games.
The Celtics rank fourth in defensive rating and second-to-last in pace, and Simons should struggle to make an impact against his former team.
