{"id":170328,"date":"2026-04-19T20:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170328\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:23:29","slug":"boston-celtics-dominate-philadelphia-76ers-in-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170328\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics dominate Philadelphia 76ers in Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Boston Celtics dominated the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series Sunday, winning 123-91. Boston built an early 23-point lead and never looked back, with its stars leading the way. Jayson Tatum, playing in his first postseason game since suffering an Achilles injury in last year&#8217;s series against the New York Knicks, finished with 25 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists. &gt;&gt; Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go &lt;&gt;&gt; See game coverage below &lt;&lt;&lt;\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tBOSTON \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics dominated the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series Sunday, winning 123-91. <\/p>\n<p>Boston built an early 23-point lead and never looked back, with its stars leading the way. <\/p>\n<p>Jayson Tatum, playing in his first postseason game since suffering an Achilles injury in last year&#8217;s series against the New York Knicks, finished with 25 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wmurapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Jaylen Brown led all scorers with 26 points, four rebounds and three assists. <\/p>\n<p>Four other Celtics finished in double figures as Boston forced 14 turnovers. <\/p>\n<p>The 76ers played without star center Joel Embiid after his appendectomy. <\/p>\n<p>The Celtics will look to take a 2-0 lead in Game 2 on Tuesday at TD Garden before the series shifts to Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<p>Celtics Round 1 Playoff Schedule: Game 1: Philadelphia at Boston | Sunday April 19 1 p.m. (WIN)Game 2: Philadelphia at Boston | Tuesday April 21 7 p.m.Game 3: Boston at Philadelphia | Friday April 24 7 p.m.Game 4: Boston at Philadelphia | Sunday April 26 7 p.m.Game 5: Philadelphia at Boston* | Tuesday April 28 (if needed)Game 6: Boston at Philadelphia* | Thursday April 30 (if needed)Game 7: Philadelphia at Boston* | Saturday May 2 (if needed)<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; See game coverage below &lt;&lt;&lt; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics dominated the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series Sunday, winning 123-91.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31763,42242,5662,12486,5956,23034,9512,14710,76561,19779,3618,75533,76562,14670,58958,5955,76560,7145,10369,4794,69,75350,1002,71,70,10167,11647,15895,3170,76559,6989],"class_list":{"0":"post-170328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-achilles-injury","10":"tag-app","11":"tag-assist","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-boston","14":"tag-boston-celtics","15":"tag-celtics","16":"tag-first-playoff-game","17":"tag-first-round","18":"tag-game","19":"tag-game-1","20":"tag-great-return","21":"tag-jaylen-brown","22":"tag-jayson-tatum","23":"tag-joel-embiid","24":"tag-knicks","25":"tag-last-year","26":"tag-massachusetts","27":"tag-nba","28":"tag-philadelphia","29":"tag-philadelphia-76er","30":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","31":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","32":"tag-philadelphia-news","33":"tag-playoffs","34":"tag-point","35":"tag-rebound","36":"tag-series","37":"tag-td-garden","38":"tag-update"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}