Boston Celtics (8-2, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (9-2, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Philadelphia; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
LINE: 76ers -1.5; over\/under is 215.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Boston is looking to keep its three-game win streak alive when the Celtics take on Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia went 45-37 overall and 9-7 in Atlantic Division games a season ago. The 76ers averaged 115.9 points per game last season, 20.1 from the free-throw line and 36.9 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
Boston went 56-26 overall and 10-6 in Atlantic Division action during the 2025-26 season. The Celtics allowed opponents to score 107.2 points per game and shoot 44.2% from the field last season.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: 76ers: Ariel Hukporti: out for season (achilles), Adem Bona: out (spine), Dominick Barlow: out (back).<\/p>\n
Celtics: Devin Carter: out (illness).<\/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 (8-2, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (9-2, first in the Eastern Conference) Philadelphia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10377,69,71,70,726],"class_list":["post-324059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-nba-basketball","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324059","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=324059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}