One of the longest sports weeks of the year for bettors is the week the NBA is on its All-Star break, but that ends Thursday night as the Association returns with a six-game schedule.

Odds courtesy of OddsShark.com

Per usual, TNT has the marquee doubleheader Thursday and that tips off with a potential Eastern Conference playoff preview between the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks, who opened as 5.5-point favorites. Boston comes out of the break sitting fourth in the East but tied with Philadelphia with a 37-21 record. Milwaukee leads the East at 43-14 – one game ahead of the Toronto Raptors – and is the current betting favorite to claim the conference title.

Let’s just say for the sake of argument that the Bucks do finish first and the Celtics fourth. That means, presuming chalk held in every first-round playoff series they would meet in the Eastern Conference semifinals. They met in the first round last year and the Celtics prevailed in seven games – the home team winning all seven.