Boston Celtics (7-7, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (2-11, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Brooklyn plays Boston looking to end its six-game home slide.<\/p>\n
The Nets are 2-8 against Eastern Conference opponents. Brooklyn ranks last in the Eastern Conference scoring 41.7 points per game in the paint.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 1-3 against opponents in the Atlantic Division. Boston is 4-3 in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n
The Nets are shooting 44.0% from the field this season, 0.4 percentage points higher than the 43.6% the Celtics allow to opponents. The Nets average 113.8 points per game, 8.1 fewer points than the 121.9 the Nets allow to opponents.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nic Claxton is averaging 15.2 points, seven rebounds and 3.9 assists for the Nets. Michael Porter Jr. is averaging 34.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jaylen Brown is averaging 27.4 points, 5.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard is averaging 30.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 2-8, averaging 108.8 points, 39.5 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 6.5 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Celtics: 6-4, averaging 114.7 points, 45.5 rebounds, 26.2 assists, 8.5 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.8 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Nets: Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Cam Thomas: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
Celtics: Jayson Tatum: out (achilles).<\/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 (7-7, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (2-11, 13th in the Eastern Conference) New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[24108,597,98,100,99,4583,9,24,63,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-42014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-24108","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42014","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=42014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}