Toronto Raptors (43-34, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (52-25, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Boston; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Celtics -9.5; over\/under is 221.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics host Scottie Barnes and the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 33-15 in conference matchups. Boston scores 114.6 points while outscoring opponents by 7.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Raptors are 30-17 in conference matchups. Toronto is third in the Eastern Conference scoring 52.9 points per game in the paint led by RJ Barrett averaging 10.3.<\/p>\n
The Celtics average 114.6 points per game, 2.5 more points than the 112.1 the Raptors give up. The Raptors average 11.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.7 fewer made shots on average than the 14.1 per game the Celtics allow.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Celtics won the last matchup 125-117 on Jan. 10, with Payton Pritchard scoring 27 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brown is averaging 28.7 points, seven rebounds and 5.3 assists for the Celtics. Jayson Tatum is averaging 19.9 points, 9.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Barnes is averaging 18.2 points, 7.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks for the Raptors. Ja’Kobe Walter is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 8-2, averaging 117.3 points, 47.5 rebounds, 24.8 assists, 6.1 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Raptors: 5-5, averaging 120.6 points, 40.2 rebounds, 34.4 assists, 10.3 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 52.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Celtics: Nikola Vucevic: out (finger).<\/p>\n
Raptors: Immanuel Quickley: out (foot).<\/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 Toronto Raptors (43-34, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (52-25, second in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,6,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-697514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-raptors","11":"tag-toronto","12":"tag-toronto-raptors","13":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116345770307946146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697514","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=697514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}