BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Baylor Scheierman scored a career-high 30 points, Luka Garza added 27, including a key 3-pointer with 31.6 seconds left, and the Boston Celtics\u2019 reserves defeated Orlando 113-108 on Sunday night, sending the Magic into a road play-in tournament game.<\/p>\n
Ron Harper Jr. had a career-best 27 points for Boston, and Garza grabbed 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Paolo Banchero led Orlando with 23 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, and Jalen Suggs scored 23 points.<\/p>\n
The Magic (45-37) had won five straight and seemed ready to lock up a home game as the Eastern Conference\u2019s No. 7 seed before the loss. They entered tied with Toronto for sixth, but fell to eighth and will face Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Boston sat eight of its regular rotation players, including stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.<\/p>\n
Playing most of the season without Tatum, who was recovering from Achilles tendon surgery, the Celtics (56-26) turned in a better-than-expected season by earning the East\u2019s No. 2 seed.<\/p>\n
Wendell Carter Jr\u2019s free throw cut Boston\u2019s lead to 108-105 with 1:37 remaining and Suggs\u2019 right-wing 3 tied it before Garza collected a pass off an in-bounds, turned and hit his 3-pointer.<\/p>\n
The Celtics led 101-85 early in the final quarter before the Magic cut the deficit to five points on Banchero\u2019s layup with just under four minutes left.<\/p>\n
Mainly behind Harper and Scheierman, Boston\u2019s reserves hung around early, falling behind by double digits midway into the second quarter and then rallying behind a 3-point shooting barrage (9 of 16) in the third quarter to outscore the Magic 42-20 in the period and open a 94-81 lead.<\/p>\n
The Celtics hit four 3-pointers in a 1:48 span \u2014 two by Scheierman \u2014 during a 12-2 spurt that pulled them ahead.<\/p>\n
Magic: Travel to No. 7 Philadelphia for a play-in game.<\/p>\n
Celtics: Await their first-round playoff opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Baylor Scheierman scored a career-high 30 points, Luka Garza added 27, including a key 3-pointer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5803,26180,10478,27107,103094,139,141,140,756,1664,5799,14250,1661,98285,1663,4399,98244,103095,32867],"class_list":{"0":"post-229625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-jalen-suggs","9":"tag-jaylen-brown","10":"tag-jayson-tatum","11":"tag-luka-garza","12":"tag-magic-celtics-score","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-headlines","15":"tag-orlando-news","16":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","17":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","18":"tag-paolo-banchero","19":"tag-philadelphia","20":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","21":"tag-product-32547-ap-online-basketball-game-stories","22":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","23":"tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","24":"tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","25":"tag-ron-harper","26":"tag-wendell-carter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229625","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=229625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}