Boston Celtics (31-18, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (19-30, 11th in the Western Conference); Dallas; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Dallas aims to end its three-game home slide with a win against Boston.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks have gone 14-14 in home games. Dallas leads the Western Conference with 35.0 defensive rebounds per game led by Anthony Davis averaging 8.0.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 15-10 on the road. Boston is ninth in the Eastern Conference scoring 116.1 points per game and is shooting 46.9%.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks average 11.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.2 fewer makes per game than the Celtics allow (14.2). The Celtics are shooting 46.9% from the field, 0.8% higher than the 46.1% the Mavericks’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Cooper Flagg is scoring 19.8 points per game with 6.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists for the Mavericks. Naji Marshall is averaging 18.0 points and 6.0 rebounds while shooting 54.4% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Payton Pritchard is scoring 16.8 points per game and averaging 4.3 rebounds for the Celtics. Jaylen Brown is averaging 26.1 points and 8.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 5-5, averaging 118.4 points, 46.8 rebounds, 25.6 assists, 7.7 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Celtics: 7-3, averaging 114.1 points, 47.2 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 7.2 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), P.J. Washington: day to day (head), Brandon Williams: day to day (leg), Kyrie Irving: out (knee), Dante Exum: out for season (knee), Anthony Davis: out (hand).<\/p>\n
Celtics: Jayson Tatum: out (achilles).<\/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":"Boston Celtics (31-18, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (19-30, 11th in the Western Conference); Dallas;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[4592,4594,4591,2097,7,686,149,4057,4593,166,6,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-577551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","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-dallas","14":"tag-dallas-mavericks","15":"tag-dallasmavericks","16":"tag-maine","17":"tag-mavericks","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116001795374410122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577551","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=577551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577551\/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=577551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}