Nikola Vucevic\u00a0finished with 28 points and 11 rebounds for his third double-double since joining the Celtics. Payton Pritchard added 22 points for Boston, which has won five of six since returning from the all-star break.<\/p>\n
The Celtics shot a season-high 66.7 per cent from the field and connected on 22 three-pointers. They also got 77 points from their bench.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Michael Porter Jr. finished with 18 points for Brooklyn, which has lost seven straight games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Celtics took control in the third quarter, outscoring the Nets 43-26. Brooklyn managed only seven points over the final 6:23 of the period.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Boston shot 15-of-19 from the field with 12 assists in the pivotal quarter and connected 5-of-7 attempts from the three-point line<\/p>\n
Boston\u2019s lead grew to as many as 41 points in the fourth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Celtics shot 62 per cent from the field (24-of-39) and 60 per cent from the three-point line (12-of-20), yet only led 66-57 at halftime.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Nets were able to stay close thanks to eighth Boston turnovers, which Brooklyn turned into 12 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Celtics had only four turnovers in the second half.<\/p>\n
Nets: Host Cleveland on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Celtics: Host 76ers on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikola Vucevic\u00a0finished with 28 points and 11 rebounds for his third double-double since joining the Celtics. Payton Pritchard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-504416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}