Charlotte Hornets (43-36, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (53-25, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Boston; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Celtics -6.5; over\/under is 220.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Charlotte will look to keep its four-game win streak alive when the Hornets take on Boston.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are 34-15 against Eastern Conference opponents. Boston ranks third in the league averaging 15.2 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 36.4% from deep. Derrick White leads the team averaging 2.7 makes while shooting 32.6% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Hornets are 25-24 in conference matchups. Charlotte ranks fifth in the NBA with 46.2 rebounds per game. Moussa Diabate paces the Hornets with 8.8.<\/p>\n
The Celtics score 114.6 points per game, 3.3 more points than the 111.3 the Hornets give up. The Hornets average 16.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 more made shots on average than the 14.1 per game the Celtics allow.<\/p>\n
The two teams square off for the third time this season. The Celtics defeated the Hornets 114-99 in their last meeting on March 29. Jayson Tatum led the Celtics with 32 points, and LaMelo Ball led the Hornets with 19 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Payton Pritchard is scoring 17.0 points per game and averaging 4.0 rebounds for the Celtics. Jaylen Brown is averaging 24.6 points and 4.9 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Ball is averaging 19.8 points and 7.2 assists for the Hornets. Brandon Miller is averaging 19.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.7 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 8-2, averaging 116.8 points, 48.1 rebounds, 24.2 assists, 6.4 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Hornets: 8-2, averaging 121.0 points, 46.8 rebounds, 26.7 assists, 6.4 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 48.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 104.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Celtics: None listed.<\/p>\n
Hornets: PJ Hall: out (ankle).<\/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 Charlotte Hornets (43-36, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (53-25, second in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-700997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116356468606885103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700997","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=700997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}