{"id":215474,"date":"2026-04-02T03:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215474\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:08:17","slug":"celtics-score-team-record-53-points-in-1st-quarter-at-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215474\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics score team-record 53 points in 1st quarter at Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boston pours it on early, notching a franchise-record 53 points in the 1st quarter against the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<p>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 The Boston Celtics 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/bos-vs-mia-0022501106\/box-score#box-score\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against the Miami Heat<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Boston\u2019s 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":"Boston pours it on early, notching a franchise-record 53 points in the 1st quarter against the Miami Heat.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[98299,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-215474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-celtics-1st-quarter","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215474","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=215474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}