Detroit Pistons (15-2, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (9-8, 10th in the Eastern Conference); Boston; Wednesday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Celtics -1.5; over\/under is 227.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Celtics face the Detroit Pistons in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 6-6 against conference opponents. Boston ranks ninth in the Eastern Conference in rebounding averaging 44.5 rebounds. Neemias Queta paces the Celtics with 7.9 boards.<\/p>\n
The Pistons are 11-2 in conference play. Detroit scores 119.6 points and has outscored opponents by 7.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Celtics average 114.6 points per game, 2.0 more points than the 112.6 the Pistons allow. The Pistons are shooting 49.0% from the field, 4.9% higher than the 44.1% the Celtics’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The two teams play for the second time this season. The Pistons defeated the Celtics 119-113 in their last matchup on Oct. 26. Cade Cunningham led the Pistons with 25 points, and Jaylen Brown led the Celtics with 41 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Derrick White is averaging 15.4 points, 5.2 assists and 1.7 steals for the Celtics. Brown is averaging 35.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Ausar Thompson is scoring 12.6 points per game and averaging 5.6 rebounds for the Pistons. Cunningham is averaging 24.0 points and 11.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 6-4, averaging 116.8 points, 45.1 rebounds, 26.1 assists, 7.6 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Pistons: 10-0, averaging 122.3 points, 44.7 rebounds, 28.0 assists, 10.8 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 51.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.8 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Celtics: Jayson Tatum: out (achilles).<\/p>\n
Pistons: Marcus Sasser: out (hip), Bobi Klintman: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons (15-2, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (9-8, 10th in the Eastern Conference); Boston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[4592,4594,4591,2097,7,45,75,3798,46,4593,6,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-434224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-app-around-maine","9":"tag-app-in-the-community","10":"tag-around-maine-more-maine-news","11":"tag-associated-press","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-boston","14":"tag-boston-celtics","15":"tag-bostonceltics","16":"tag-celtics","17":"tag-maine","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115610293762194939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}