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Nets at Celtics game preview: How to watch, TV channel, start time

Here’s the preview of Nets-Celtics on Wednesday.

The Brooklyn Nets (31-19, fourth in the Eastern Conference) visit TD Garden on Wednesday to face the Boston Celtics (36-15, first in the Eastern Conference) for the third of four matchups between the two teams this season. Boston leads the regular-season series 2-0.

In the first game, a Celtics 103-92 win on Dec. 4, Jaylen Brown led the Celtics with 34 points and 10 rebounds in a win that snapped the Nets’ four-game winning streak at the time. Kevin Durant led Brooklyn in scoring with 31 points while Kyrie Irving struggled to 18 points on 7-for-21 shooting from the field.

In the second game, a Boston 109-98 win on Jan. 12, Jayson Tatum led the Celtics in scoring with 20 points and guided the team to the win despite not having Brown due to right adductor tightness. For the Nets, Irving led the team in scoring with 24 points, but shot just 9-of-24 from the field in Brooklyn’s first game without Durant due to his sprained MCL he suffered four days prior against the Miami Heat.

Boston comes into this game without top defensive guard Marcus Smart and could be without big Robert Williams III. The Celtics have won seven of its past 10 games and was involved in a controversial win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday. Brooklyn comes into this game having gone 4-6 since Durant has been injured. The Nets are on a two-game winning streak after beating the New York Knicks and the Lakers.

Here’s when and where you can tune in to see the matchup:

Kyrie Irving shares concern over ‘subtle racism’ in return to Boston

Nets guard, Kyrie Irving, expresses his concerns on returning to Boston to play his former team in Game 3.

Kyrie Irving put up quite the performance needed in Game 2 to help lift his squad over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday. In 27 minutes, Irving scored 15 points on 6-of-12 shooting from the field. That went along with six boards and six assists with a plus-minus of 19. For the media though, the highlight of his night were his comments on returning to TD Garden for Games 3 and 4:

“I am just looking forward to competing with my teammates and hopefully, we can just keep it strictly basketball… there’s no belligerence or racism going on, subtle racism. People yelling [expletive] from the crowd, but even if it is, it’s part of the nature of the game and we’re just going to focus on what we can control.”

In his short stint playing for the Celtics, the Nets guard knows what to expect when returning to play his former team at Boston. Regardless of how the outcome plays out, Irving has a task at hand and he’s focused on completing that task. His team is up 2-0 in the series and they’re on a quest to make it to the main stage.

Former Celtics star Kendrick Perkins responded to Irving’s comments, saying he personally had never experienced racism during his time in Boston. “It’s always extra with him,” Perkins said.

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Kyrie Irving reflects on return to Boston: ‘Coming here is easy’

Kyrie Irving had a strong showing in his return to Boston on Friday as the Nets cruised past the Celtics.

Without fans at TD Garden for the Nets’ trip to visit the Celtics on Friday — and the fact it was a preseason meeting — there wasn’t the type of tension expected in Kyrie Irving’s first game back in Boston. It’s clear Irving’s former teammates have moved on — two gave him their jerseys after the Nets’ 113-89 win. Brooklyn’s point guard says he feels similarly.

“It’s like going on another day at the job, honestly,” Irving said about his return to Boston on a Zoom call with reporters following Friday’s preseason win. “I’m grateful to be able to have relationships with a lot of these guys still here, guys that aren’t here [anymore]. At the end of the day, we went to war together. I respect all those young men down there.

“We’re not even young, you know. We’re just young kings growing in a business where we wanna do what makes us happy, and to see Jayson [Tatum] get better, to see Jaylen [Brown] get better, to see these guys mature and be in the positions that they’re in, I’m nothing but proud of them. To see other guys be happy, that’s all I could want. So, coming here is easy. Performing here is easy. Basketball’s the easy part. It’s just the external stuff beforehand that gets a little noisy, so try to limit that.”

Irving and the Nets will visit the Celtics again on Christmas.

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