{"id":579800,"date":"2026-04-02T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579800\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:24:09","slug":"celtics-147-129-heat-apr-1-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579800\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics 147-129 Heat (Apr 1, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI — \u2014 Jaylen Brown<\/a> scored 43 points, Jayson Tatum<\/a> had his first triple-double of the season and the Boston Celtics<\/a> rode the strength of a record-setting first quarter to beat the Miami Heat<\/a> 147-129 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Tatum finished with 25 points, 18 rebounds and 11 assists for Boston, which scored 53 points in the first quarter \u2014 a franchise record that tied the second-highest total for an opening quarter in NBA history. Sam Hauser<\/a> added 23 for the Celtics, who are 31-0 when scoring at least 117 points this season and are 10-1 in their last 11 games following a loss.<\/p>\n

The Celtics led by as many as 27, then saw the lead trimmed to as little as nine early in the fourth quarter. Boston (51-25) holds the No. 2 spot in the Eastern Conference race, four games behind No. 1 Detroit.<\/p>\n

Bam Adebayo<\/a> had 29 points and 10 rebounds for Miami, which tied a franchise record by hitting 24 3-pointers. The Heat made 24 on three other occasions.<\/p>\n

Davion Mitchell<\/a> scored 21, while Tyler Herro<\/a> and Pelle Larsson<\/a> each scored 18 and Jaime Jaquez Jr<\/a>. added 17 for the Heat (40-37).<\/p>\n

Miami remained in the No. 10 spot in the East play-in race. The Heat are a half-game behind No. 8 Orlando and No. 9 Charlotte, teams both with 40-36 records.<\/p>\n

The Celtics made 11 of their first 13 shots on the way to the sizzling start, then closed the first quarter on a 24-3 run that turned a one-point deficit into a 20-point lead \u2014 and that burst came in just over four minutes.<\/p>\n

Boston’s lead was 80-57 at halftime and the Celtics scored the first four points of the second half to push the margin to 27.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Celtics: Visit Milwaukee on Friday.<\/p>\n

Heat: Host Washington on Saturday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI — \u2014 Jaylen Brown scored 43 points, Jayson Tatum had his first triple-double of the season and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-579800","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\/579800","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=579800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}