Denver Nuggets (24-12, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (23-12, second in the Eastern Conference); Boston; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Boston heads into a matchup with Denver as winners of four consecutive games.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 11-5 in home games. Boston has a 10-7 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets are 14-7 on the road. Denver is seventh in the NBA with 33.3 defensive rebounds per game led by Nikola Jokic averaging 9.1.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are shooting 47.4% from the field this season, 0.1 percentage points higher than the 47.3% the Nuggets allow to opponents. The Nuggets score 13.9 more points per game (124.4) than the Celtics give up (110.5).<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Derrick White is shooting 39.7% and averaging 18.4 points for the Celtics. Anfernee Simons is averaging 27.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Peyton Watson is averaging 12.2 points for the Nuggets. Jalen Pickett is averaging 29.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 8-2, averaging 120.7 points, 45.2 rebounds, 23.1 assists, 7.6 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Nuggets: 4-6, averaging 121.1 points, 40.4 rebounds, 28.2 assists, 6.4 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 48.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 123.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Celtics: Jayson Tatum: out (achilles).<\/p>\n
Nuggets: Cameron Johnson: out (knee), Tim Hardaway Jr.: out (illness management), Jamal Murray: out (ankle), Tamar Bates: out (foot), Nikola Jokic: out (knee), Aaron Gordon: out (hamstring), Jonas Valanciunas: out (calf), Christian Braun: out (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":"Denver Nuggets (24-12, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (23-12, second 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":[3781],"tags":[4592,4594,4591,2097,7,301,187,3943,4593,6,302,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-522060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","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-denver","14":"tag-denver-nuggets","15":"tag-denvernuggets","16":"tag-maine","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nuggets","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115852734983349908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522060","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=522060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522060\/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=522060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}