Brooklyn Nets (2-12, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (8-7, ninth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Boston; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Celtics face the Brooklyn Nets in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 2-3 against division opponents. Boston is fourth in the Eastern Conference with 13.5 offensive rebounds per game led by Neemias Queta averaging 3.1.<\/p>\n
The Nets are 0-4 against division opponents. Brooklyn ranks ninth in the league averaging 13.9 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 33.4% from deep. Michael Porter Jr. leads the team averaging 3.2 makes while shooting 36.0% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Celtics average 15.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.3 more made shots on average than the 14.0 per game the Nets give up. The Nets are shooting 43.7% from the field, 0.3% higher than the 43.4% the Celtics’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time this season. In the last meeting on Nov. 19 the Celtics won 113-99 led by 29 points from Jaylen Brown, while Porter scored 25 points for the Nets.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brown is averaging 27.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.1 assists for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard is averaging 22.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Terance Mann is scoring 9.4 points per game and averaging 3.1 rebounds for the Nets. Porter is averaging 25.0 points and 6.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 6-4, averaging 113.5 points, 45.1 rebounds, 25.8 assists, 8.0 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Nets: 2-8, averaging 107.8 points, 39.7 rebounds, 24.6 assists, 7.4 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 42.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Celtics: Jayson Tatum: out (achilles).<\/p>\n
Nets: Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Cam Thomas: out (hamstring), Ben Saraf: day to day (ankle).<\/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":"Brooklyn Nets (2-12, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (8-7, ninth in the Eastern Conference) Boston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[26107,597,98,100,99,4583,9,24,63,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-45828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-26107","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\/45828","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=45828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45828\/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=45828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}