{"id":379398,"date":"2026-10-22T06:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379398\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T06:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:48:07","slug":"new-york-plays-boston-for-conference-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379398\/","title":{"rendered":"New York plays Boston for conference showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> (0-1, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/boston-celtics-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a> (0-1, 11th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Boston; Friday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">LINE: Celtics -2.5; over\/under is 223.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Boston plays New York in a matchup of Eastern Conference teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Boston went 56-26 overall, 10-6 in Atlantic Division play and 30-11 at home a season ago. The Celtics averaged 114.9 points per game last season, 44.2 in the paint, 15.8 off of turnovers and 11.8 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">New York finished 53-29 overall and 14-3 in Atlantic Division action during the 2025-26 season. The Knicks shot 47.8% from the field and 37.3% from 3-point range last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Celtics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/devin-carter-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Carter<\/a>: out (illness).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Knicks: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press New York Knicks (0-1, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (0-1, 11th in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9127,69673,54398,4568,9,11,1104,10],"class_list":["post-379398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-boston-celtics","tag-devin-carter","tag-event_preview","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}