Overview
- Tip-off is 7:30 p.m. ET as Boston opens a home-and-home with Indiana at TD Garden.
- Brown is available after a one-game illness absence; Jayson Tatum remains out and Jordan Walsh is questionable.
- Indiana is 6-22 and thin without Tyrese Haliburton, Aaron Nesmith, Ben Sheppard and Obi Toppin, with TJ McConnell listed as questionable.
- The Celtics are 17-11, third in the East, and allowing 110.5 points per game while recent standouts include Payton Pritchard’s 33-point night and rookie Hugo González’s double-double.
- A Pacers win would mark coach Rick Carlisle’s 1,000th NBA victory.