Boston Celtics (43-21, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (47-17, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Antonio; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio will try to keep its eight-game home win streak alive when the Spurs play Boston.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 24-6 in home games. San Antonio has a 7-4 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 22-11 on the road. Boston is fifth in the NBA with 12.8 offensive rebounds per game led by Neemias Queta averaging 3.0.<\/p>\n
The 118.6 points per game the Spurs average are 11.7 more points than the Celtics give up (106.9). The Celtics average 15.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.6 more made shots on average than the 12.8 per game the Spurs allow.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Spurs won the last matchup 100-95 on Jan. 11. Victor Wembanyama scored 21 points to help lead the Spurs to the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Stephon Castle is scoring 16.3 points per game and averaging 4.8 rebounds for the Spurs. Wembanyama is averaging 21.9 points and 11.4 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Payton Pritchard is scoring 16.9 points per game and averaging 4.1 rebounds for the Celtics. Jaylen Brown is averaging 20.0 points and 7.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 9-1, averaging 121.2 points, 45.4 rebounds, 31.0 assists, 7.5 steals and 7.4 blocks per game while shooting 49.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Celtics: 8-2, averaging 110.1 points, 51.7 rebounds, 27.5 assists, 5.0 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 98.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Harrison Barnes: day to day (ankle), Mason Plumlee: day to day (reconditioning).<\/p>\n
Celtics: Nikola Vucevic: out (finger).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics (43-21, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (47-17, second in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3797],"tags":[83972,1297,7,6,446,969,474,4075,4074,66,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-648551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-83972","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-basketball","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-sanantoniospurs","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116198234032857126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648551","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=648551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}