MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Jaylen Brown scored 26 points, Jayson Tatum added 23, and the hot-shooting Boston Celtics capitalized on another fast start in a 133-101 victory over the short-handed Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Tatum was an assist shy of his second straight triple-double despite sitting out the entire fourth quarter of a game the Celtics never trailed. He had 11 rebounds and nine assists Friday after collecting 25 points, 18 rebounds and 11 assists Wednesday in a 147-129 triumph over the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n
In the Miami game, Boston scored 53 points in the opening period \u2014 its highest first-quarter point total in franchise history. The Celtics didn\u2019t quite match that Friday, but they made eight of their first nine 3-point attempts and led 43-26 after the opening period.<\/p>\n
That represented the most first-quarter points Milwaukee had allowed all season.<\/p>\n
Boston (52-25) remained 2 1\/2 games ahead of the New York Knicks in the competition for the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Celtics are four games behind the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n
Neemias Queta had 19 points and 10 rebounds for the Celtics, who shot 56.2% overall and 17 of 37 from 3-point range. Derrick White scored 17, Payton Pritchard 16 and Sam Hauser 13.<\/p>\n
Taurean Prince scored 18 points to lead Milwaukee. Pete Nance had 14 points and a career-high 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo missed a 10th straight game due to what the Bucks have described as hyperextension in his left knee and a bone bruise. He told The Athletic and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel before the game that he’s healthy and wants to play.<\/p>\n
The Bucks also were missing Kevin Porter Jr. (right knee), Bobby Portis (left wrist sprain), Ryan Rollins (right hip strain) and Gary Trent Jr. (left hip pointer).<\/p>\n
Boston was without Nikola Vucevic, who last played March 6 as he deals with a fractured right ring finger.<\/p>\n
Celtics: Host the Toronto Raptors on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Bucks: Host the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Jaylen Brown scored 26 points, Jayson Tatum added 23, and the hot-shooting Boston Celtics capitalized…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,197963,286230,62056,20456,7228,15610,7230,20445,590,32203,34713,146000,146002,81448,280498,145996,280639,145998,286233,286232,286231,15924,97394,85,160136],"class_list":{"0":"post-584651","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-bobby-portis","11":"tag-celtics-bucks-score","12":"tag-derrick-white","13":"tag-gary-trent-jr","14":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","15":"tag-jaylen-brown","16":"tag-jayson-tatum","17":"tag-kevin-porter","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-neemias-queta","20":"tag-nikola-vucevic","21":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","22":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","23":"tag-payton-pritchard","24":"tag-pete-nance","25":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","26":"tag-product-32547-ap-online-basketball-game-stories","27":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","28":"tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","29":"tag-product-40811-ap-rhode-island-sports-only","30":"tag-product-40822-ap-wisconsin-sports-only","31":"tag-ryan-rollins","32":"tag-sam-hauser","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-taurean-prince"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584651","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=584651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}