Boston Celtics (35-19, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors (29-26, eighth in the Western Conference); San Francisco; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Celtics -3.5; over\/under is 217.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Boston travels to Golden State for a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
The Warriors are 18-10 on their home court. Golden State is sixth in the Western Conference at limiting opponent scoring, allowing just 113.7 points while holding opponents to 47.2% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 17-10 in road games. Boston ranks last in the Eastern Conference recording just 23.9 assists per game led by Derrick White averaging 5.6.<\/p>\n
The Warriors average 16.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 more made shots on average than the 14.0 per game the Celtics give up. The Celtics are shooting 46.7% from the field, 0.5% lower than the 47.2% the Warriors’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brandin Podziemski is averaging 12 points and 3.5 assists for the Warriors. Moses Moody is averaging 15.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nikola Vucevic is scoring 16.7 points per game and averaging 9.0 rebounds for the Celtics. Jaylen Brown is averaging 21.6 points and 6.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Warriors: 4-6, averaging 109.4 points, 40.4 rebounds, 29.4 assists, 12.3 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Celtics: 7-3, averaging 107.3 points, 47.2 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 6.8 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 100.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Warriors: Jimmy Butler III: out for season (knee), Kristaps Porzingis: out (achilles), LJ Cryer: day to day (hamstring), Will Richard: day to day (knee), Stephen Curry: out (knee), Seth Curry: out (back).<\/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 (35-19, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors (29-26, eighth in the Western Conference);…\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-609649","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\/116091542971115872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609649","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=609649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609649\/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=609649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}