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Philadelphia 76ers (45-37, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics<\/a> (56-26, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Boston; Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Celtics -12.5; over\/under is 213.5<\/p>\n

EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Celtics host first series matchup<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Celtics host the Philadelphia 76ers to start the Eastern Conference first round. Boston and Philadelphia tied the regular season series 2-2. The Celtics won the last regular season matchup 114-98 on Monday, March 2 led by 27 points from Jaylen Brown<\/a>, while Tyrese Maxey<\/a> scored 33 points for the 76ers.<\/p>\n

The Celtics are 10-6 against the rest of their division. Boston leads the Eastern Conference in rebounding, averaging 46.4 boards. Nikola Vucevic<\/a> leads the Celtics with 8.4 rebounds.<\/p>\n

The 76ers are 9-7 against the rest of their division. Philadelphia ranks ninth in the NBA<\/a> scoring 16.9 fast break points per game. VJ Edgecombe<\/a> leads the 76ers averaging 8.0.<\/p>\n

The Celtics average 114.9 points per game, 1.2 fewer points than the 116.1 the 76ers allow. The 76ers are shooting 46.2% from the field, 2.0% higher than the 44.2% the Celtics’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Brown is scoring 28.7 points per game with 6.9 rebounds and 5.1 assists for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard<\/a> is averaging 18.3 points and 3.2 rebounds while shooting 53.1% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Quentin Grimes<\/a> is shooting 45.0% and averaging 13.4 points for the 76ers. Paul George<\/a> is averaging 3.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 8-2, averaging 119.6 points, 45.6 rebounds, 26.3 assists, 6.3 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 49.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

76ers: 6-4, averaging 118.0 points, 45.3 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 8.6 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Celtics: Nikola Vucevic: day to day (finger), Sam Hauser<\/a>: day to day (back), Hugo Gonzalez<\/a>: day to day (foot), Payton Pritchard: day to day (foot), Jayson Tatum: day to day (injury management), Derrick White: day to day (knee), Neemias Queta<\/a>: day to day (toe), Jaylen Brown: day to day (achilles).<\/p>\n

76ers: Johni Broome: out (knee), Joel Embiid<\/a>: out (abdomen).<\/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":"Philadelphia 76ers (45-37, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (56-26, second in the Eastern Conference) Boston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,78812,3528,78,1407,6,4986,3853,526,405,4155,2080,1263,971],"class_list":{"0":"post-713021","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-event_preview","14":"tag-hugo-gonzalez","15":"tag-jaylen-brown","16":"tag-national-basketball-association","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-neemias-queta","19":"tag-nikola-vucevic","20":"tag-paul-george","21":"tag-payton-pritchard","22":"tag-quentin-grimes","23":"tag-sam-hauser","24":"tag-tyrese-maxey","25":"tag-vj-edgecombe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116424600896769592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713021","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=713021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}