Boston Celtics (50-25, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat (40-36, ninth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Miami; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics take on Bam Adebayo and the Miami Heat in Eastern Conference action.<\/p>\n
The Heat are 24-22 in Eastern Conference games. Miami leads the Eastern Conference in rebounding, averaging 46.7 boards. Adebayo paces the Heat with 10.0 rebounds.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 31-15 in conference matchups. Boston averages 114.0 points and has outscored opponents by 7.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Heat make 46.4% of their shots from the field this season, which is 2.3 percentage points higher than the Celtics have allowed to their opponents (44.1%). The Celtics are shooting 46.3% from the field, 0.1% higher than the 46.2% the Heat’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Celtics won the last meeting 98-96 on Feb. 7. Brown scored 29 points to help lead the Celtics to the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jaime Jaquez Jr. is averaging 14.9 points, 5.1 rebounds and 4.7 assists for the Heat. Adebayo is averaging 18.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Brown is scoring 28.6 points per game with 7.1 rebounds and 5.2 assists for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard is averaging 17.9 points and 3.6 rebounds while shooting 44.2% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 3-7, averaging 117.9 points, 43.2 rebounds, 27.7 assists, 6.9 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 125.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Celtics: 7-3, averaging 110.6 points, 47.8 rebounds, 23.0 assists, 6.5 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Heat: Norman Powell: out (back).<\/p>\n
Celtics: Neemias Queta: out (thumb), Nikola Vucevic: out (finger), Jayson Tatum: out (injury management).<\/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":"By The Associated Press Boston Celtics (50-25, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat (40-36, ninth in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,144,295,189,3881,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-691061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-heat","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-heat","12":"tag-miamiheat","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116327126342154040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691061","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=691061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}