{"id":58265,"date":"2025-11-24T03:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58265\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T03:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:08:13","slug":"celtics-hold-off-comeback-beat-magic-138-129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58265\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics hold off comeback, beat Magic 138-129"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Jaylen Brown scored 35 points and Josh Minott scored 12 of his 16 points in the second quarter when Boston shot 81.8% as the Celtics beat the short-handed Orlando Magic 138-129 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Anfernee Simons added 23 points and Payton Pritchard chipped in with 19 and eight assists for the Celtics, who were coming off a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nets-celtics-score-df237f25e9d7d56c62da737bbd0e25bd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tough home loss to Brooklyn<\/a>\u00a0on Friday. Brown also had eight assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics nearly squandered a 26-point, third-quarter lead. But, Brown scored 12 straight points. The Magic whittled away at their deficit and closed within six points in the final minute.<\/p>\n<p>Jett Howard scored a season-high 30 points for the Magic, who were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/orlando-magic-injuries-0ef9edd4777ffff84f7fdca1315be0bf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missing three of their top five scorers<\/a>\u00a0and had their three-game winning streak snapped. Desmond Bane had 18 points and Franz Wagner 15.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando coach Jamahl Mosley was back back after missing the second half of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/knicks-magic-score-cf3885ae20ab4670f0104f872f6d6aee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">victory over the New York Knicks<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>Boston connected on 18 of 22 shots in the second quarter, turning a five-point lead after one period into an 80-57 edge at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Minott was 5 for 5 from the floor, connecting on two attempts from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Pritchard keyed a quick 10-3 spurt with a steal and layup before hitting a 3-pointer from the right corner 11 seconds later that made it 66-49. He also made a mid-range jumper with two seconds left in the half, capping the Celtics\u2019 48 points in the period.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off the victory at home against the Knicks, the Magic seemed a bit sluggish and had their franchise record-tying string of eight straight quarters of 30-or-more points end in the opening quarter as they were held to 27 points.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Magic: At the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday in the second game of a three-game trip.<\/p>\n<p>Celtics: Host the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Jaylen Brown scored 35 points and Josh Minott scored 12 of his 16 points in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2205,28,139,141,1239,140,1240,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-58265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-magic","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-professional-basketball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58265","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=58265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}