Boston Celtics (19-12, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (12-19, 11th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Salt Lake City; Tuesday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Keyonte George and the Utah Jazz host the Boston Celtics in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
The Jazz have gone 8-10 in home games. Utah is 3-4 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The Celtics have gone 9-7 away from home. Boston is second in the NBA allowing only 110.5 points while holding opponents to 44.8% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Jazz’s 14.1 made 3-pointers per game this season are the same per game average that the Celtics allow. The Celtics are shooting 47.2% from the field, 1.9% lower than the 49.1% the Jazz’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The two teams square off for the second time this season. The Jazz defeated the Celtics 105-103 in their last meeting on Nov. 4. George led the Jazz with 31 points, and Jaylen Brown led the Celtics with 36 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: George is shooting 45.0% and averaging 24.2 points for the Jazz. Lauri Markkanen is averaging 5.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Brown is averaging 29.7 points, 6.3 rebounds and 4.8 assists for the Celtics. Anfernee Simons is averaging 13 points and two steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Jazz: 4-6, averaging 124.3 points, 43.8 rebounds, 30.7 assists, 7.4 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 46.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 132.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Celtics: 7-3, averaging 119.1 points, 43.4 rebounds, 23.5 assists, 8.7 steals and 5.4 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Jazz: Ace Bailey: day to day (hip), Georges Niang: out (foot), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder).<\/p>\n
Celtics: Jayson Tatum: out (achilles), Chris Boucher: day to day (personal).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics (19-12, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (12-19, 11th in the Western Conference) Salt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[160108,1331,49,48,459,34740,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-374912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-160108","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374912","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=374912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}