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LAS VEGAS \u2013 Dillon Mitchell<\/a> erupted for a game-high 24 points to lead the Boston Celtics to an 87-75 win<\/a> over the Charlotte Hornets at the 2026 NBA Summer League<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n Boston drafted Mitchell at pick No. 40 <\/a>in the 2026 NBA Draft<\/a>. The rookie out of St. John\u2019s went 10-for-20 from the field with six steals, two blocks, and eight rebounds, seven of which came on the offensive end.<\/p>\n The Hornets owned a 21-17 edge after one quarter, but the Celtics grabbed the reins and didn\u2019t let go.<\/p>\n After trailing by as much as seven in the second quarter, Boston closed the first half strong, taking a 42-40 lead at the break. The Celtics outscored Charlotte 70-54 over the final three frames, and they reached a game-best 19-point advantage at one point of the fourth.<\/p>\n The Hornets made 22 turnovers on Saturday, then committed 25 total miscues today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Dillon Mitchell drops 24 points vs. Hornets in Las Vegas action.<\/p>\n Boston finished 14-for-35 (40%) from the 3-point line, with four players draining three triples each.<\/p>\n John Tonje was one of them, scoring 17 points with five rebounds and one steal. Hugo Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a> provided a full line with 14 points, four boards, four assists and three steals, and Milos Uzan chipped in 13 points, four rebounds and six assists with a game-best +24 rating.<\/p>\n Liam McNeeley paced the Hornets with 20 points on 6-for-14 shooting and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n Christian Anderson,<\/a> pick No. 18 in 2026, added 13 points, four boards, one assist and two steals.<\/p>\n Boston (2-0) takes on the Atlanta Hawks on Monday (6 ET, Prime Video<\/a>), while Charlotte (1-2) resumes play against the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday (7:30 ET, Prime Video<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celtics defeat the Hornets, 87-75, improving to 2-0 at the 2026 NBA Summer League. \u2022 Download the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,2870,81480,590,85,5657],"class_list":["post-796617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celtics","tag-hornets","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-summer-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796617","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=796617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Boston](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1782882448_646_logo.png\"){kind=logo}
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