Philadelphia 76ers (45-37, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (56-26, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Boston; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Celtics -13.5; over\/under is 216.5<\/p>\n
EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Celtics lead series 1-0<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Celtics host the Philadelphia 76ers in the Eastern Conference first round with a 1-0 lead in the series. The Celtics won the last matchup 123-91 on Sunday, led by 26 points from Jaylen Brown. Tyrese Maxey led the 76ers with 21.<\/p>\n
The Celtics have gone 10-6 against division opponents. Boston is third in the league averaging 15.5 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 36.7% from downtown. Derrick White leads the team averaging 2.7 makes while shooting 32.7% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The 76ers are 27-25 in conference play. Philadelphia is sixth in the Eastern Conference with 16.9 fast break points per game led by VJ Edgecombe averaging 8.0.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are shooting 46.7% from the field this season, the same percentage the 76ers allow to opponents. The 76ers score 8.7 more points per game (115.9) than the Celtics give up (107.2).<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Payton Pritchard is scoring 17.0 points per game and averaging 3.9 rebounds for the Celtics. Brown is averaging 20.8 points and 3.8 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Maxey is averaging 28.3 points, 6.6 assists and 1.9 steals for the 76ers. Paul George is averaging 2.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 8-2, averaging 121.0 points, 44.7 rebounds, 26.8 assists, 7.0 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 50.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
76ers: 5-5, averaging 111.4 points, 44.8 rebounds, 22.9 assists, 8.0 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Celtics: None listed.<\/p>\n
76ers: Joel Embiid: day to day (abdomen).<\/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":"Philadelphia 76ers (45-37, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (56-26, second in the Eastern Conference) Boston;…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":535580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1339,2731,3125,221033,14561,14562,36688,2739,1260,6326,3579,1448,5217,3525,77889,2830,1311,3123,2737,62,36689,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,41713],"class_list":["post-740478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-basketball","tag-boston","tag-boston-celtics","tag-data-skrive","tag-derrick-white","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-joel-embiid","tag-massachusetts","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-pa","tag-pa-state-wire","tag-paul-george","tag-payton-pritchard","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-rhode-island","tag-sports","tag-tyrese-maxey","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vj-edgecombe"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116436118170514002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}