{"id":659250,"date":"2026-03-15T06:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/659250\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T06:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:42:18","slug":"boston-and-phoenix-meet-in-cross-conference-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/659250\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston and Phoenix meet in cross-conference matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phoenix Suns<\/a> (39-28, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Boston Celtics<\/a> (44-23, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Boston; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Phoenix Suns take on the Boston Celtics in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n

The Celtics have gone 22-10 in home games. Boston leads the league in team defense, allowing 107.0 points while holding opponents to 44.1% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Suns have gone 17-15 away from home. Phoenix is last in the league scoring 42.9 points per game in the paint.<\/p>\n

The Celtics are shooting 46.4% from the field this season, 0.6 percentage points lower than the 47.0% the Suns allow to opponents. The Suns score 5.5 more points per game (112.5) than the Celtics give up (107.0).<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the second time this season. The Celtics won the last meeting 97-81 on Feb. 25. Derrick White<\/a> scored 22 points to help lead the Celtics to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jaylen Brown<\/a> is averaging 28.2 points, 7.1 rebounds and 5.1 assists for the Celtics. White is averaging 17.5 points and 5.1 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Devin Booker<\/a> is averaging 25.4 points and six assists for the Suns. Collin Gillespie<\/a> is averaging 3.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 6-4, averaging 110.1 points, 48.8 rebounds, 26.2 assists, 5.5 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 103.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Suns: 6-4, averaging 108.4 points, 41.1 rebounds, 23.6 assists, 8.2 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 44.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.6 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Celtics: Nikola Vucevic: out (finger).<\/p>\n

Suns: Dillon Brooks: out (hand), Mark Williams<\/a>: out (foot).<\/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":"Phoenix Suns (39-28, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (44-23, second in the Eastern Conference) Boston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,4216,1243,2292,78812,78,1011,1407,6,472],"class_list":["post-659250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-boston-celtics","tag-basketball","tag-boston","tag-boston-celtics","tag-bostonceltics","tag-celtics","tag-collin-gillespie","tag-derrick-white","tag-devin-booker","tag-event_preview","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-mark-williams","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-phoenix-suns"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116231834541023763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659250","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=659250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}