8:40 pm
November 6

Celtics @ Mavericks

Who will WIN this matchup?

Boston Celtics (4-5)

@ Dallas Mavericks (5-3)

 

Current odds:

Boston Celtics: (+135)

Dallas Mavericks: (-155)

 

• The line for this game is Mavericks by 3 points.

• After back-to-back victories, the Boston Celtics are riding a growing wave of momentum into their road matchup with Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday night. Boston earned its best victory of the season Thursday in a 95-78 thumping of the previously surging Miami Heat on the road. The win came after the Celtics righted the ship with a 92-79 win at the Orlando Magic on Wednesday to snap a three-game skid amid their worst start in more than a decade.

• Jaylen Brown scored 17 points to lead the Celtics in the low-scoring, defensive win over Miami, but the All-Star exited with hamstring tightness and his status for Saturday’s game is uncertain. Meanwhile, Brown’s fellow All-Star Jayson Tatum finished with just 10 points on 3-of-13 shooting as his early season shooting struggles continued. Tatum is shooting a career-worst 37.3 percent from the field through nine games.

• Dallas has yet to lose consecutive games this season and is coming off a 109-108 win at the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday. Jalen Brunson’s 10-foot jumper with 3:32 remaining put the Mavericks ahead for good as they held off the Spurs down the stretch in a tight finish.

• After Doncic led the team in scoring in each of the first seven games, Brunson emerged as the leading scorer for Dallas with a game-high 31 against San Antonio.

• The two-time All-Star Doncic added 23 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists for the Mavs and is averaging a team-high 23.9 points through eight games.

• Reggie Bullock’s status for Saturday’s game is up in the air after he left the game in San Antonio with a facial injury and did not return.

• The Mavericks played without Kristaps Porzingis (low back tightness) and Maxi Kleber (left oblique strain) against the Spurs. The former All-Star Porzingis has played in just three games this season, averaging 12.7 points and six rebounds.

• Dallas swept the two-game series against Boston last season, by just three and five points. Doncic averaged 33.5 points in the two games while Brown and Tatum each averaged 26.5 for Boston.

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