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

Boston; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Celtics -13.5; over\/under is 216.5<\/p>\n

EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Celtics lead series 1-0<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Celtics host the Philadelphia 76ers in the Eastern Conference first round with a 1-0 lead in the series. The Celtics won the last matchup 123-91 on Sunday, led by 26 points from Jaylen Brown<\/a>. Tyrese Maxey<\/a> led the 76ers with 21.<\/p>\n

The Celtics have gone 10-6 against division opponents. Boston is third in the league averaging 15.5 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 36.7% from downtown. Derrick White<\/a> leads the team averaging 2.7 makes while shooting 32.7% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

The 76ers are 27-25 in conference play. Philadelphia is sixth in the Eastern Conference with 16.9 fast break points per game led by VJ Edgecombe<\/a> averaging 8.0.<\/p>\n

The Celtics are shooting 46.7% from the field this season, the same percentage the 76ers allow to opponents. The 76ers score 8.7 more points per game (115.9) than the Celtics give up (107.2).<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Payton Pritchard<\/a> is scoring 17.0 points per game and averaging 3.9 rebounds for the Celtics. Brown is averaging 20.8 points and 3.8 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Maxey is averaging 28.3 points, 6.6 assists and 1.9 steals for the 76ers. Paul George<\/a> is averaging 2.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 8-2, averaging 121.0 points, 44.7 rebounds, 26.8 assists, 7.0 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 50.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

76ers: 5-5, averaging 111.4 points, 44.8 rebounds, 22.9 assists, 8.0 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Celtics: None listed.<\/p>\n

76ers: Joel Embiid<\/a>: day to day (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":[3769],"tags":[679,7,75,1243,78812,78,936,1407,6,526,405,678,207,3817,1263,971],"class_list":{"0":"post-714470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-derrick-white","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-jaylen-brown","14":"tag-joel-embiid","15":"tag-national-basketball-association","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-paul-george","18":"tag-payton-pritchard","19":"tag-philadelphia","20":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","21":"tag-philadelphia76ers","22":"tag-tyrese-maxey","23":"tag-vj-edgecombe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116435938940511832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714470","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=714470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714470\/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=714470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}