Overview
- Tipoff is 6 p.m. ET at TD Garden, with Boston favored by 4.5 points and the over/under set at 221.0.
- Brown urged teammates to “come ready to play” after Friday’s 113-105 home loss to the Nets.
- Orlando enters on a three-game win streak and six wins in seven, boosted by Franz Wagner’s season-high 37 against New York.
- Paolo Banchero will sit with a left groin strain, and coach Jamahl Mosley says he expects to coach after feeling light-headed Saturday.
- Five of Boston’s eight wins have come against sub-.500 teams as a tougher stretch begins, with Anfernee Simons’ 23-point bench outing a recent bright spot.