Victor Wembanyama scored 16 of his 21 points in the second half, including a game-sealing jumper with 19.2 seconds left, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Boston Celtics 100-95<\/p>\n
BOSTON — Victor Wembanyama scored 16 of his 21 points in the second half, including a game-sealing jumper with 19.2 seconds left, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Boston Celtics 100-95 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
De’Aaron Fox also finished with 21 points for the Spurs and Keldon Johnson added 18 points and 10 rebounds. San Antonio won its second straight after losing two in a row.<\/p>\n
Derrick White led Boston with 29 points and Jaylen Brown had 27. The Celtics lost for just the third time in 12 games.<\/p>\n
The game was tied at 84 before Baylor Scheierman\u2019s corner 3-pointer pushed Boston ahead with just under seven minutes left. White followed with a driving basket before the Spurs went on a 9-2 spree, taking a 93-91 lead on Johnson\u2019s 3-pointer with 2:14 left.<\/p>\n
After Brown\u2019s layup tied it, Wembanyama\u2019s fadeaway jumper pushed San Antonio back in front with 1:33 to go.<\/p>\n
Brown was then stripped of the ball near midcourt by Fox, and Julian Champagnie converted a putback of his own miss to make it 97-93 with 41 seconds left.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama\u2019s left-wing jumper made it 99-95. <\/p>\n
Playing his third straight game after missing a pair with a sore knee,<\/a> Wembanyama didn\u2019t score his first points until hitting a 3 from the top midway into the second quarter.<\/p>\n But he got going in the second half, scoring nine consecutive points for San Antonio midway into the third quarter, bringing the Spurs back from a nine-point deficit to tie it on his three-point play.<\/p>\n