{"id":254170,"date":"2025-10-31T22:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254170\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:45:09","slug":"celtics-face-76ers-in-group-stage-opener-of-nba-cup-nbc-sports-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254170\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics face 76ers in group stage opener of NBA Cup \u2013 NBC Sports Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

What to KnowTune into Celtics Pregame Live<\/a> at 6:30 p.m. ET as Chris Forsberg, Tom Giles and Brian Scalabrine preview the matchup.Check out Celtics Postgame Live<\/a> as our crew breaks down the game after the final buzzer.Jayson Tatum (right Achilles repair) is the only C’s player who was ruled out.Boston is coming off back-to-back wins while Philadelphia (4-0) hasn’t lost. Philadelphia beat Boston in a head-to-head matchup Oct. 22.Group B also features the Magic, Nets and Pistons.<\/p>\n

The Celtics didn’t have to wait long to see the 76ers again, but their second matchup in 10 days has a little more on the line.<\/p>\n

Boston travels to Philadelphia for its group stage opener of the 2025 NBA Cup<\/a>, an in-season tournament launched in 2023. The contest counts towards the Green’s regular-season record, and it is not as a single-elimination opportunity. The C’s will also face the Magic, Nets and Pistons in Group B play over the next month.<\/p>\n

Joe Mazzulla’s team dropped its season-opener against Philadelphia<\/a> on Oct. 22, a contest in which the C’s held a double-digit lead in the fourth quarter. Boston, however, will enter Friday’s game with some momentum<\/a> after earning consecutive wins against the Pelicans and Cavaliers.<\/p>\n

Keep up with the latest news, highlights and analysis in our Celtics-76ers live blog:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowTune into Celtics Pregame Live at 6:30 p.m. ET as Chris Forsberg, Tom Giles and Brian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[150215,64,63,1664,15610,79853,590,9688,85],"class_list":["post-254170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-2025-nba-cup","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boston-celtics","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-josh-minott","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}