{"id":196398,"date":"2026-03-09T06:40:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196398\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:40:25","slug":"san-antonio-takes-on-boston-looks-for-9th-straight-home-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196398\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio takes on Boston, looks for 9th straight home win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics<\/a> (43-21, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (47-17, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

San Antonio; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio will try to keep its eight-game home win streak alive when the Spurs play Boston.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 24-6 in home games. San Antonio has a 7-4 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Celtics are 22-11 on the road. Boston is fifth in the NBA<\/a> with 12.8 offensive rebounds per game led by Neemias Queta<\/a> averaging 3.0.<\/p>\n

The 118.6 points per game the Spurs average are 11.7 more points than the Celtics give up (106.9). The Celtics average 15.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.6 more made shots on average than the 12.8 per game the Spurs allow.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. The Spurs won the last matchup 100-95 on Jan. 11. Victor Wembanyama<\/a> scored 21 points to help lead the Spurs to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Stephon Castle<\/a> is scoring 16.3 points per game and averaging 4.8 rebounds for the Spurs. Wembanyama is averaging 21.9 points and 11.4 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Payton Pritchard<\/a> is scoring 16.9 points per game and averaging 4.1 rebounds for the Celtics. Jaylen Brown<\/a> is averaging 20.0 points and 7.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 9-1, averaging 121.2 points, 45.4 rebounds, 31.0 assists, 7.5 steals and 7.4 blocks per game while shooting 49.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Celtics: 8-2, averaging 110.1 points, 51.7 rebounds, 27.5 assists, 5.0 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 98.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Harrison Barnes<\/a>: day to day (ankle), Mason Plumlee<\/a>: day to day (reconditioning).<\/p>\n

Celtics: Nikola Vucevic: out (finger).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics (43-21, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (47-17, second in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6384,64550,32001,20729,70621,16585,51873,51876,82,84,83,1066,1504,509],"class_list":{"0":"post-196398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-boston-celtics","9":"tag-event_preview","10":"tag-harrison-barnes","11":"tag-jaylen-brown","12":"tag-mason-plumlee","13":"tag-national-basketball-association","14":"tag-neemias-queta","15":"tag-payton-pritchard","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","18":"tag-san-antonio-news","19":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","20":"tag-stephon-castle","21":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}