With a game in the books against the Nets already, we expect the Celtics to take Brooklyn a bit more seriously from the tip.

When the Nets faced the Celtics in recent seasons, the results did not favor Brooklyn. Boston is 11-1 in the past 12 regular-season meetings with Brooklyn and has won the past five. Of the Celtics’ 11 wins in that span, eight have been by double digits.

For the second time this season, last night the Brooklyn Nets lost to the Boston Celtics 139-114. In an offensive outpouring from both sides, the Celtics simply had more firepower with Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, while the Nets were without Dorian Finney-Smith, Ben Simmons, and Bojan Bogdanovic.