{"id":576376,"date":"2026-04-02T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576376\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:41:09","slug":"celtics-score-53-points-in-first-quarter-at-miami-setting-club-record-for-opening-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576376\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics score 53 points in first quarter at Miami, setting club record for opening period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"boston-celtics\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boston Celtics<\/a> had a first quarter like none other in their storied history.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics scored 53 points \u2014 their biggest-scoring first quarter ever \u2014 in the opening 12 minutes of their game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/miami-heat\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"miami-heat\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami Heat<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Boston&#8217;s barrage is tied for the second-highest-scoring first quarter in NBA regular-season history. Golden State had a 55-point opening quarter at Portland on April 9, 2023, and Miami had a 53-point opening quarter against Charlotte on Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second-most points Boston has scored in a quarter; the Celtics had 54 in the fourth period of a game against the San Diego Clippers on Feb. 25, 1970. And it was the most points Miami ever allowed in any quarter; the Heat gave up 50 in the fourth quarter of a game at Seattle on Jan. 5, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Boston made 11 3-pointers in the opening quarter, with Sam Hauser going 5 for 5 from beyond the arc while playing all 12 minutes. Jaylen Brown had 20 points by himself in the quarter \u2014 the ninth 20-point quarter of his career, including playoffs \u2014 and Hauser finished with 17.<\/p>\n<p>Boston led 53-33 at the end of the quarter, after shooting 20 for 28 from the field and 11 for 15 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 The Boston Celtics had a first quarter like none other in their storied history. The Celtics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-576376","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\/576376","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=576376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}