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Tuesday's NBA card is light on volume but heavy on plot. The league's two best records in the East collide in Philadelphia, and the guy at the center of the league's messiest offseason trade is walking back into a building full of history with his old number on the wall. College basketball adds a Champions Classic rematch, and the NHL throws in a borderline-contender clash in Toronto.
Marquee: Boston Celtics at Philadelphia 76ers (8:00 PM ET, NBC)
This is the first time Jaylen Brown has faced the Celtics since Boston traded him to Philadelphia over the summer for Paul George and four draft picks, ending a nine-season partnership with Jayson Tatum that produced five conference finals runs and a 2024 championship. The two have traded barbs from a distance ever since, Brown saying there's "lamb chops and some gravy" between them and that Tatum has "a hell of a PR team," Tatum calling it overblown. Brown told reporters after Sunday's win over Chicago that he has "no emotion towards anything" heading into Tuesday, for what it's worth. On the floor, it's the Celtics (8-2) at the 76ers (9-2), the NBA's two best records in the East meeting for the first time this season, with Philadelphia's Jaylen Barlow and Mo Bona out and Boston at full health per tonight's injury report.
Vegas line (ESPN): Celtics -1.5 (-101), 76ers +1.5 (-120), over/under 217.5, moneyline Celtics -111 / 76ers -106.
Also tonight
- Milwaukee Bucks at New York Knicks (7:30 PM ET). Milwaukee is off to a league-worst 1-9 start with Tyler Herro day-to-day; New York is 5-4 with Josh Hart also day-to-day. Oddsmakers have the Knicks favored by double digits at home, the widest spread on tonight's slate.
- Michigan State at Duke (7:00 PM ET, ESPN). Two of college basketball's winningest programs open the week in Durham in an early-season measuring stick that carries Champions Classic energy even outside that event.
- Colorado Avalanche at Toronto Maple Leafs (7:00 PM ET, ESPN+/Altitude Sports). Toronto's Morgan Rielly and Calle Sissons are day-to-day; Colorado reports no injuries heading into a tilt between two teams built to contend deep into spring.
- Kansas at Kentucky (9:30 PM ET, ESPN). Another blue-blood-on-blue-blood non-conference test, the kind of game that tells you more about a roster in November than most results do.
- Oklahoma City Thunder at Portland Trail Blazers (11:00 PM ET, NBC). The defending-contender Thunder are 8-2 and on the road against a Portland team that's quietly 6-3 and playing without Ja Morant and Matas Krejci.
Everything else about tonight's slate runs through Philadelphia. Win or lose, the Brown-Tatum story doesn't end at the final buzzer, it just moves to whatever either of them says about it afterward.
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