Boston Celtics (5-6, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (6-4, seventh in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Philadelphia; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Boston visits Philadelphia in Eastern Conference action Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia finished 24-58 overall and 3-13 in Atlantic Division games last season. The 76ers averaged 18.7 points off of turnovers, 13.1 second-chance points and 31.1 bench points last season.<\/p>\n
Boston finished 61-21 overall, 14-2 in Atlantic Division play and 33-8 on the road a season ago. The Celtics averaged 7.2 steals, 5.5 blocks and 11.4 turnovers per game last season.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the third time this season. The Celtics won the last matchup 109-108 on Oct. 31, with Jaylen Brown scoring 32 points in the win.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: 76ers: Paul George: out (knee), Dominick Barlow: out (elbow).<\/p>\n
Celtics: Jayson Tatum: out (achilles), Xavier Tillman: day to day (personal).<\/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 (5-6, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (6-4, seventh in the Eastern Conference) Philadelphia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19042,1165,10377,69,71,70,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-29840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-19042","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba-basketball","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}