{"id":623586,"date":"2026-02-25T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/623586\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:34:13","slug":"boston-puts-road-win-streak-on-the-line-against-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/623586\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston puts road win streak on the line against Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics<\/a> (38-19, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets<\/a> (36-22, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Denver; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Nuggets -4.5; over\/under is 228.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Boston visits Denver looking to extend its five-game road winning streak.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are 15-11 in home games. Denver ranks fourth in the Western Conference with 33.4 defensive rebounds per game led by Nikola Jokic<\/a> averaging 9.4.<\/p>\n

The Celtics are 20-10 in road games. Boston is last in the NBA<\/a> scoring 11.9 fast break points per game.<\/p>\n

The 120.8 points per game the Nuggets average are 13.2 more points than the Celtics give up (107.6). The Celtics average 15.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.0 more made shots on average than the 13.4 per game the Nuggets allow.<\/p>\n

The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Nuggets defeated the Celtics 114-110 in their last meeting on Jan. 8. Peyton Watson<\/a> led the Nuggets with 30 points, and Jaylen Brown<\/a> led the Celtics with 33 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jokic is averaging 28.8 points, 12.5 rebounds and 10.5 assists for the Nuggets. Jamal Murray<\/a> is averaging 23.7 points and eight assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Derrick White<\/a> is scoring 17.1 points per game and averaging 4.5 rebounds for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard<\/a> is averaging 3.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 4-6, averaging 124.4 points, 45.8 rebounds, 29.4 assists, 8.2 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 49.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Celtics: 9-1, averaging 108.3 points, 50.7 rebounds, 25.9 assists, 6.1 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 95.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nuggets: Jalen Pickett<\/a>: out (knee), Julian Strawther<\/a>: day to day (toe), Jamal Murray: day to day (hamstring), Tamar Bates<\/a>: out (foot), Aaron Gordon: out (hamstring), Peyton Watson: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

Celtics: Jaylen Brown: out (knee), Jayson Tatum: out (achilles).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics (38-19, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (36-22, fourth in the Western Conference) Denver;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,75,301,187,3943,1243,78812,1361,762,78,763,1407,6,253,302,405,1146,6254],"class_list":{"0":"post-623586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-nuggets","12":"tag-denvernuggets","13":"tag-derrick-white","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-jalen-pickett","16":"tag-jamal-murray","17":"tag-jaylen-brown","18":"tag-julian-strawther","19":"tag-national-basketball-association","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-nikola-jokic","22":"tag-nuggets","23":"tag-payton-pritchard","24":"tag-peyton-watson","25":"tag-tamar-bates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116130353446711859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623586","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=623586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}