Oklahoma City Thunder (57-15, first in the Western Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (47-24, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Boston; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City will try to keep its seven-game road win streak alive when the Thunder face Boston.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 24-11 in home games. Boston is third in the Eastern Conference with 12.8 offensive rebounds per game led by Neemias Queta averaging 3.0.<\/p>\n
The Thunder have gone 28-8 away from home. Oklahoma City has a 5-6 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The 114.1 points per game the Celtics average are 6.6 more points than the Thunder give up (107.5). The Thunder are shooting 48.2% from the field, 4.1% higher than the 44.1% the Celtics’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time this season. The Thunder won the last matchup 104-102 on March 13, with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scoring 35 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Derrick White is shooting 39.6% and averaging 17.3 points for the Celtics. Jaylen Brown is averaging 25.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Chet Holmgren is averaging 17.2 points, nine rebounds and 1.9 blocks for the Thunder. Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 26.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 6-4, averaging 109.6 points, 48.5 rebounds, 23.7 assists, 6.3 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Thunder: 10-0, averaging 116.1 points, 45.2 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 8.7 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Celtics: Nikola Vucevic: out (finger).<\/p>\n
Thunder: Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).<\/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":"Oklahoma City Thunder (57-15, first in the Western Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (47-24, second in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[86099,1297,7,6,446,310,475,179,3966,3965,66,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-676080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-86099","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-basketball","13":"tag-oklahoma","14":"tag-oklahoma-city","15":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","16":"tag-oklahomacity","17":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116283238266406640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676080","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=676080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676080\/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=676080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}