{"id":502571,"date":"2026-02-25T06:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502571\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:29:08","slug":"celtics-97-81-suns-feb-24-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502571\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics 97-81 Suns (Feb 24, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX — \u2014 Derrick White<\/a> scored 22 points, Neemias Queta<\/a> had 14 points and 13 rebounds, and the Boston Celtics<\/a> used a big third quarter to beat the Phoenix Suns<\/a> 97-81 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Sam Hauser<\/a> shot 6 for 14, including 4 for 10 from 3-point range, to add 16 points and the Celtics \u2014 playing without All-Star Jaylen Brown<\/a> (right knee contusion) \u2014 won their fourth in a row and for the ninth time in their last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Baylor Scheierman<\/a> had 11 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Collin Gillespie<\/a> had 15 points and Grayson Allen<\/a> scored 14 as the Suns lost for the fourth time in their last five games. The Suns played without their top two scorers, Devin Booker<\/a> (right hip strain) and Dillon Brooks<\/a> (left hand fracture), who combined average nearly 46 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Celtics led 50-46 at halftime but took control by outscoring the Suns 30-11 in the third quarter, including a 16-0 run.<\/p>\n

The Celtics also held a huge advantage on the boards, outrebounding the Suns by 27, 61 to 34.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Celtics: At Denver on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Suns: Host the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX — \u2014 Derrick White scored 22 points, Neemias Queta had 14 points and 13 rebounds, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-502571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502571","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=502571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}