{"id":497600,"date":"2026-02-22T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497600\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:28:07","slug":"celtics-taking-on-lakers-in-l-a-nbc-sports-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497600\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics taking on Lakers in L.A. \u2013 NBC Sports Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Celtics hope to stay hot on the road Sunday night when they visit their storied rival, the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n

Boston, the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference, enters on a four-game road win streak and has eight wins in its last 10 games. L.A. has won two straight games and is tied for the No. 4 seed in the West.<\/p>\n

The C’s were victorious in their first matchup against the Lakers<\/a> this season, 126-105. Jaylen Brown, who’s coming off his third triple-double of the season, led the way with 30 points in the Dec. 5 win over L.A.<\/p>\n

Follow our live blog below for score updates, highlights, news, and reaction throughout Sunday’s game:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics hope to stay hot on the road Sunday night when they visit their storied rival,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,1664,15610,7896,7232,11473,590,85],"class_list":["post-497600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boston-celtics","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497600","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=497600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}