{"id":523326,"date":"2026-03-08T22:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523326\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:12:07","slug":"celtics-top-cavaliers-109-98-tatum-scores-20-in-second-game-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523326\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics top Cavaliers 109-98; Tatum scores 20 in second game back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCLEVELAND \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 109-98 on Sunday afternoon at Rocket Arena in a game televised on WMUR-TV. <\/p>\n<p>Jaylen Brown led Boston with 23 points, while Jayson Tatum contributed 20 points in 27 minutes in his second game back after a torn right Achilles tendon. <\/p>\n<p>Center Nikola Vucevic did not play after fracturing his right ring finger in the Celtics&#8217; previous game against the Dallas Mavericks. He underwent surgery Saturday and is expected to be out for at least a month. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wmurapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland led by as many as eight points in the first quarter, but Boston picked up the pace and took the lead in the second quarter. <\/p>\n<p>The Celtics&#8217; defense held the Cavaliers to 13 of 45 on 3-pointers, or 29%.<\/p>\n<p>Boston remains second in the Eastern Conference at 43-21, behind the Detroit Pistons, who are 45-17. <\/p>\n<p>Boston travels to Texas next for a Tuesday night game against the San Antonio Spurs at Frost Bank Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 The Boston Celtics defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 109-98 on Sunday afternoon at Rocket Arena in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[1637,461,1222,49,48,31973,5939,4850,2357,7470,23934,25541,21091,3556,51816,459,6376,1463,98254,206196,82,30128,88791,206198,2939,206197],"class_list":["post-523326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-app","tag-basketball","tag-boston-celtics","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cavaliers","tag-celtics","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-download","tag-eastern-conference","tag-go","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-minute","tag-nba","tag-ohio","tag-point","tag-rocket-arena","tag-second-game","tag-sports","tag-sunday","tag-tatum","tag-torn-achilles-tendon","tag-update","tag-wmur-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523326","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=523326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}