{"id":175457,"date":"2026-04-25T02:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175457\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:49:07","slug":"philadelphia-76ers-drop-game-3-to-boston-celtics-trail-series-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175457\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers drop Game 3 to Boston Celtics, trail series 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jayson Tatum continued to shine in his return from injury with 25 points and Jaylen Brown also scored 25 to help the Boston Celtics beat the Philadelphia 76ers 108-100 on Friday night and take a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference first-round series.<\/p>\n<p>Tatum was 5 of 9 on 3-pointers in just his 19th game this season following surgery last May to repair his Achilles tendon. Brown scored eight straight points late in the fourth for a 96-92 lead that put some distance between them and a Sixers team brimming with confidence following a surprise Game 2 win in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Tatum buried a 3 for a 100-96 lead and Payton Pritchard hit a step-back 3 to make it 103-98. Tatum, still looking to regain his top form after not playing for nearly a year, may just be there and hit the final 3-point dagger for the 106-100 lead that even sent Allen Iverson headed toward the exit.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia played again without center <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joelembiid\/status\/2046762090631745939?s=46\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joel Embiid<\/a> for Game 3 as he continues to ease his way back into practice following an appendectomy on April 9.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrese Maxey scored 31 points and Paul George added 18.<\/p>\n<p>The more games Embiid misses, the more Maxey and VJ Edgecombe have played their way into the faces of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Fans were already on their feet when the Sixers brought the ball down in the fourth and roared when Maxey let a 28-footer fly and hit it for an 85-84 lead. <\/p>\n<p>Yet growing pains are inevitable in the playoff process.<\/p>\n<p>Tatum took the lead right back on a goaltending call against Edgecombe. Edgecombe paired his second double-double of the series &#8211; 10 points and 10 rebounds \u2014 with a brutal 0-for-7 effort from 3-point range. With Boston up 90-85, Edgecombe was whistled for his third foul when he smacked Brown on his way to the bucket. Brown hit both to stretch the lead to seven.<\/p>\n<p>Boston&#8217;s 32-point Game 1 win stands as the outlier so far of two otherwise fantastic playoff games. What has stayed steady, the team with the 3-point edge wins. Boston hit 16 in Game 1 and the 76ers had the advantage with 19 in Game 2. Led by five each from Tatum and Payton Pritchard, the Celtics made 20 of 47 in Game 3 while the Sixers were just 12 of 35.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers got only a combined 22 points from Embiid replacements Adem Bona and Andre Drummond.<\/p>\n<p>Game 4 is Sunday in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jayson Tatum continued to shine in his return from injury with 25 points and Jaylen Brown also scored&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5956,9512,14670,5955,4794,69,1002,71,70,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-175457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-jaylen-brown","11":"tag-joel-embiid","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","15":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","16":"tag-philadelphia-news","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175457","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=175457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}