Twitter map shows most of U.S. rooting for Celtics in conference finals
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The Boston Celtics are the most popular team among fans in this year's NBA conference finals, according to new Twitter data.
A map created by Betonline.ag, based on over 120,000 geotagged tweets sent out since the conference finals were set on Sunday, shows the Celtics are favored in 22 states, the most of any team.
The Miami Heat were the second-most popular team with 13 states, followed by the Golden State Warriors with eight and the Dallas Mavericks with seven.
The Celtics lost Game 1 of their Eastern Conference finals series on Tuesday, falling 118-107 to the Heat. Game 2 takes place Thursday night.
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