{"id":390754,"date":"2026-01-04T09:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390754\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:12:12","slug":"celtics-146-115-clippers-4-jan-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390754\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics 146-115 Clippers (4 Jan, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — \u2014 Jaylen Brown<\/a> matched his career high with 50 points and the Boston Celtics<\/a> completed a successful West Coast swing with a 146-115 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Brown had 19 points in the third quarter. Derrick White<\/a> added 29 points and Anfernee Simons<\/a> had 15 as the Celtics went 4-1 on the trip and 3-1 against Western Conference teams. Boston is 7-1 since Dec. 19.<\/p>\n

Brown was 18 of 26 from the floor, while White went 10 of 20. Boston shot 55.2% overall and 47.1% from 3-point range. Brown and White combined to go 11 of 22 from long range.<\/p>\n

Kawhi Leonard<\/a> and John Collins<\/a> each scored 22 points as the Clippers saw their season-best, six-game winning streak end. Collins made his first eight shots in the game and went 9 of 10 from the floor.<\/p>\n

Derrick Jones scored 19 points for Los Angeles before leaving in the fourth quarter with an apparent right knee injury. James Harden<\/a> had 18 points and 12 assists, and Ivica Zubac<\/a> had four points and seven rebounds in 21 minutes after missing the previous five games with a sprained left ankle.<\/p>\n

Brown put the game away with nine consecutive Celtics points for a 128-107 lead with 6:15 remaining. He scored inside in traffic with 3:56 remaining to reach 50 points.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Celtics: Host Chicago on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Clippers: Host Golden State on Monday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. — \u2014 Jaylen Brown matched his career high with 50 points and the Boston Celtics completed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-390754","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\/390754","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=390754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}