New York Knicks (0-1, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (0-1, 11th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Boston; Friday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Celtics -2.5; over\/under is 223.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Boston plays New York in a matchup of Eastern Conference teams.<\/p>\n
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
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
INJURIES: Celtics: Devin Carter: out (illness).<\/p>\n
Knicks: None listed.<\/p>\n
___<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks (0-1, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (0-1, 11th in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4583,9,11,10,319],"class_list":["post-379484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-nba-basketball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379484","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=379484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}