Boston Celtics (56-26, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (45-37, seventh in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Philadelphia; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Celtics -5.5; over\/under is 212.5<\/p>\n
EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Celtics lead series 3-2<\/p>\n
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BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Celtics look to clinch the series over the Philadelphia 76ers in game six of the Eastern Conference first round. The 76ers defeated the Celtics 113-97 in the last meeting on Tuesday. Joel Embiid led the 76ers with 33 points, and Jayson Tatum led the Celtics with 24.<\/p>\n
The 76ers are 9-7 against division opponents. Philadelphia is sixth in the Eastern Conference with 16.9 fast break points per game led by VJ Edgecombe averaging 8.0.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 10-6 against opponents in the Atlantic Division. Boston ranks seventh in the NBA with 12.5 offensive rebounds per game led by Neemias Queta averaging 3.0.<\/p>\n
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The 76ers average 12.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.7 fewer makes per game than the Celtics allow (14.0). The Celtics average 15.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.1 more made shots on average than the 13.4 per game the 76ers give up.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Tyrese Maxey is scoring 28.3 points per game with 4.1 rebounds and 6.6 assists for the 76ers. Paul George is averaging 16.1 points and 4.4 rebounds while shooting 46.0% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jaylen Brown is scoring 28.7 points per game and averaging 6.9 rebounds for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard is averaging 2.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: 76ers: 4-6, averaging 103.9 points, 42.7 rebounds, 20.5 assists, 7.7 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Celtics: 7-3, averaging 114.4 points, 45.9 rebounds, 25.8 assists, 6.6 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 46.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: 76ers: None listed.<\/p>\n
Celtics: None listed.<\/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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics (56-26, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (45-37, seventh in the Eastern Conference) Philadelphia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[1222,49,48,23934,21091,3556,1526,459,21093,19748,92592,1518,1528,96762,82,19746,9769],"class_list":["post-638322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eastern-conference","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-joel-embiid","tag-nba","tag-neemias-queta","tag-paul-george","tag-payton-pritchard","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-points-per-game","tag-sports","tag-tyrese-maxey","tag-vj-edgecombe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638322","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=638322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}