NBA action on Wednesday will see Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics (9-3) visiting the Brooklyn Nets (5-6) at Barclays Center, with the matchup starting at 7:30 PM ET. The Celtics head into this game after a 117-116 loss to the Hawks on Tuesday.

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

The Celtics enter this matchup after a 117-116 loss against the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday in which Boston wasn't able to overcome an Atlanta team missing its best player in Trae Yo

The Nets turned the tables from their late blown leads, coming from behind to rally for a 107-105 win over the Pelicans before a sellout crowd of 16,895 at Smoothie King Center.

The Brooklyn Nets (5-6) had been looking to go back to Brooklyn with at least one win in their three-game road trip after losing at the Boston Celtics and at the Cleveland Cavaliers as part of a back-to-back.

The Brooklyn Nets nearly beat the defending champion Boston Celtics and the undefeated Cleveland Cavaliers over the weekend, so Monday’s game against the gutted New Orleans Pelicans was supposed to be one of their easier matchups of the season — at least on paper.