Washington Wizards (16-49, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (43-23, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Boston; Saturday, 6 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Washington travels to Boston looking to stop its eight-game road skid.<\/p>\n
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The Celtics have gone 28-14 against Eastern Conference opponents. Boston is third in the Eastern Conference with 33.5 defensive rebounds per game led by Nikola Vucevic averaging 6.6.<\/p>\n
The Wizards are 11-30 against Eastern Conference opponents. Washington gives up 123.9 points to opponents and has been outscored by 11.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Celtics average 15.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.6 more made shots on average than the 13.8 per game the Wizards give up. The Wizards average 12.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 fewer made shots on average than the 14.0 per game the Celtics allow.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The Celtics won 146-101 in the last matchup on Dec. 5.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Jaylen Brown is scoring 28.4 points per game with 7.1 rebounds and 5.2 assists for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard is averaging 10.8 points and 3.2 rebounds while shooting 39.1% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Bub Carrington is averaging 9.9 points and 4.6 assists for the Wizards. Will Riley is averaging 15.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 6-4, averaging 108.7 points, 49.4 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 5.1 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 101.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Wizards: 0-10, averaging 114.8 points, 39.4 rebounds, 23.0 assists, 6.7 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 130.3 points.<\/p>\n
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INJURIES: Celtics: Jayson Tatum: day to day (conditioning), Nikola Vucevic: out (finger), Derrick White: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
Wizards: Jamir Watkins: day to day (foot), Anthony Davis: out (finger), Cam Whitmore: out for season (shoulder), Kyshawn George: out (elbow), D’Angelo Russell: day to day (not injury related).<\/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":"Washington Wizards (16-49, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (43-23, second in the Eastern Conference) Boston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[5554,2242,60526,74191,39048,32707,228257,29175,5488,60522,355,34909,59097,27610,99,11948,158441],"class_list":["post-520786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-anthony-davis","tag-boston-celtics","tag-bub-carrington","tag-cam-whitmore","tag-derrick-white","tag-eastern-conference","tag-jamir-watkins","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-kyshawn-george","tag-nba","tag-nikola-vucevic","tag-payton-pritchard","tag-points-per-game","tag-sports","tag-washington-wizards","tag-will-riley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}