MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Jaylen Brown scored 43 points, Jayson Tatum had his first triple-double of the season and the Boston Celtics rode the strength of a record-setting first quarter to beat the Miami Heat 147-129 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Tatum finished with 25 points, 18 rebounds and 11 assists for Boston, which scored 53 points in the first quarter \u2014 a franchise record that tied the second-highest total for an opening quarter in NBA history. Sam Hauser added 23 for the Celtics, who are 31-0 when scoring at least 117 points this season and are 10-1 in their last 11 games following a loss.<\/p>\n
The Celtics led by as many as 27, then saw the lead trimmed to as little as nine early in the fourth quarter. Boston (51-25) holds the No. 2 spot in the Eastern Conference race, four games behind No. 1 Detroit.<\/p>\n
Bam Adebayo had 29 points and 10 rebounds for Miami, which tied a franchise record by hitting 24 3-pointers. The Heat made 24 on three other occasions.<\/p>\n
Davion Mitchell scored 21, while Tyler Herro and Pelle Larsson each scored 18 and Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 17 for the Heat (40-37).<\/p>\n
Miami remained in the No. 10 spot in the East play-in race. The Heat are a half-game behind No. 8 Orlando and No. 9 Charlotte, teams both with 40-36 records.<\/p>\n
The Celtics made 11 of their first 13 shots on the way to the sizzling start, then closed the first quarter on a 24-3 run that turned a one-point deficit into a 20-point lead \u2014 and that burst came in just over four minutes.<\/p>\n
Boston’s lead was 80-57 at halftime and the Celtics scored the first four points of the second half to push the margin to 27.<\/p>\n
Celtics: Visit Milwaukee on Friday.<\/p>\n
Heat: Host Washington on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Jaylen Brown scored 43 points, Jayson Tatum had his first triple-double of the season and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15960,98284,43337,16561,26180,10478,123,125,124,756,1664,1661,98285,1663,4399,98244,35647,13465],"class_list":{"0":"post-215445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-bam-adebayo","9":"tag-celtics-heat-score","10":"tag-davion-mitchell","11":"tag-jaime-jaquez","12":"tag-jaylen-brown","13":"tag-jayson-tatum","14":"tag-miami","15":"tag-miami-headlines","16":"tag-miami-news","17":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","18":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","19":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","20":"tag-product-32547-ap-online-basketball-game-stories","21":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","22":"tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","23":"tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","24":"tag-sam-hauser","25":"tag-tyler-herro"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}