{"id":386446,"date":"2026-01-02T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386446\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:15:08","slug":"celtics-120-106-kings-2-jan-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386446\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics 120-106 Kings (2 Jan, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — \u2014 Jaylen Brown<\/a> had 29 points and 10 rebounds, and the Boston Celtics<\/a> pulled away down the stretch to beat the Sacramento Kings<\/a> 120-106 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Brown shot 11 of 25, including 1 for 9 from 3-point distance, but made six free throws and added four assists before fouling out late in the fourth quarter. The four-time All-Star has been on a scoring tear lately, pouring in 20 or more points in 12 of his last 15 games.<\/p>\n

Derrick White<\/a> had 16 points and seven assists as Boston improved to 3-1 on its five-game trip. Payton Pritchard<\/a> added 16 points and six assists.<\/p>\n

Sam Hauser<\/a> hit five 3-pointers to finish with 15 points, and Anfernee Simons<\/a> scored 14 off the bench.<\/p>\n

DeMar DeRozan<\/a> led Sacramento with 25 points. Dennis Schroder<\/a> scored 18 and Keon Ellis<\/a> added 16. The Kings (8-26) have lost four of five and nine of 11.<\/p>\n

White’s tiebreaking 3-pointer gave the Celtics the lead for good, 93-90, with 10:45 remaining. <\/p>\n

Sacramento pulled to 104-100 with 6:30 left before Brown converted a three-point play and White followed with another 3. Brown scored six points and White had five in an 11-2 run that gave Boston a 115-102 cushion with 2:50 to play.<\/p>\n

Sacramento controlled much of the first half even though Boston connected on 10 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

Precious Achiuwa<\/a> had eight points in the first quarter to help the Kings erase an early eight-point deficit and lead 29-28.<\/p>\n

The Celtics (21-12) trailed 61-56 late in the second but Brown made a pair of layups as part of a 6-0 spurt to end the half.<\/p>\n

After Boston extended its lead to eight early in the third period, Sacramento put together its best surge of the night and took a four-point advantage before the teams headed into the fourth tied at 88.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Celtics: Visit the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Kings: Face the Suns in Phoenix on Friday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. — \u2014 Jaylen Brown had 29 points and 10 rebounds, and the Boston Celtics pulled away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-386446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}