Toronto aims to stop its 4-game home skid with a victory over Boston. The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season. Toronto is 3-4 against the Atlantic…<\/p>\n
Boston Celtics (16-11, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (17-11, third in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Toronto; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Celtics -1.5; over\/under is 223.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Toronto is looking to break its four-game home skid with a victory over Boston.<\/p>\n The Raptors are 3-4 against Atlantic Division opponents. Toronto is the league leader with 19.9 fast break points per game led by RJ Barrett averaging 4.1.<\/p>\n The Celtics have gone 12-8 against Eastern Conference opponents. Boston is second in the NBA averaging 15.9 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 36.6% from deep. Derrick White leads the team averaging 3.3 makes while shooting 35.5% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n The Raptors average 115.3 points per game, 4.3 more points than the 111.0 the Celtics give up. The Celtics average 15.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.3 more made shots on average than the 12.6 per game the Raptors allow.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the second time this season. The Celtics won 121-113 in the last matchup on Dec. 7.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Scottie Barnes is scoring 19.8 points per game with 8.0 rebounds and 5.2 assists for the Raptors. Brandon Ingram is averaging 29.0 points and 8.0 rebounds while shooting 50.0% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Jaylen Brown is scoring 29.3 points per game and averaging 6.3 rebounds for the Celtics. White is averaging 9.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Raptors: 4-6, averaging 106.0 points, 43.4 rebounds, 28.4 assists, 8.7 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.0 points per game.<\/p>\n Celtics: 7-3, averaging 120.0 points, 41.8 rebounds, 23.4 assists, 8.7 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 49.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.8 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Raptors: Jakob Poeltl: day to day (back), RJ Barrett: out (knee).<\/p>\n Celtics: Ron Harper Jr.: day to day (knee), Jayson Tatum: out (achilles).<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto aims to stop its 4-game home skid with a victory over Boston. The teams meet Saturday for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-357190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}