Raptors Head to Boston To Open 2-Game Set vs. Celtics: Where to Watch, Injuries, & Odds

The Toronto Raptors will open their final trip of the year against the Boston Celtics on Wednesday: Where to watch, injury reports, and odds

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The Toronto Raptors wrap up their final road trip of the season with a pair on Boston starting Wednesday night against the Celtics at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Where to Watch

TSN and TSN 1050 will broadcast the game for Toronto. NBC Sports and WBZ NewsRadio 1030 will call it in Boston.

What to Watch For

• The Celtics are coming off a heartbreaking last-second loss to the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night and any hope that they'd maybe take it easy on Toronto now seems unlikely. Boston sits two games up on Philadelphia, albeit with the tiebreaker in hand. The Celtics now just need to take one of the next two games against the Raptors to clinch the No. 2 seed.
• Scottie Barnes had one of his most dissapointing games as a Raptor on Tuesday, failing to score a single point against a tanking Charlotte Hornets team. Maybe it was just playing down to the competition but that can't happen again. Barnes is too talented and too important for Toronto to be so uninvolved.
• Will Barton returned from injury Tuesday with a bang, nailing five three-pointers for Toronto. It's unlikely he sees much if any meaningful postseason action but if he's able to string together a few lights-out shooting peformances he could warrant a closer look down the road.
• Expect Jeff Dowtin Jr.'s contract to be converted to a standard deal at some point soon. He's hit his 50-game max for games active on his two-way contract and is now ineligible from playing again until his contract is changed.

Injury Reports

Neither team has released their injury report as they're both on the second night of back-to-backs. Keep an eye on Gary Trent Jr.'s status. Toronto has been hoping to get him back ahead of the postseason.

Game Odds

The Raptors are +4 point underdogs with an implied win probability of 40%. The total for the game is 225.

Further Reading

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