{"id":151685,"date":"2026-02-05T05:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/151685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:10:10","slug":"short-handed-cs-dominate-in-houston-nbc-sports-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/151685\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-handed C\u2019s dominate in Houston \u2013 NBC Sports Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics were severely short-handed on the second night of a back-to-back against a tough Houston Rockets team on Wednesday night. It didn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Without Jaylen Brown (hamstring\/knee), Sam Hauser (thumb), and Anfernee Simons (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/celtics-trade-anfernee-simons-to-bulls-for-nikola-vucevic-report\/765212\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/celtics-trade-anfernee-simons-to-bulls-for-nikola-vucevic-report\/765212\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported trade<\/a>), the C&#8217;s cruised to a 114-93 win at the Toyota Center. Derrick White stepped up in their absence with a game-high 28 points and eight assists.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Harper Jr. also delivered for the C&#8217;s in his first NBA start with 11 points and nine rebounds. Payton Pritchard had another nice night off the bench with 27 points.<\/p>\n<p>The C&#8217;s will go for five straight wins when they host the Miami Heat on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our live blog below for a full recap of Wednesday&#8217;s game:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics were severely short-handed on the second night of a back-to-back against a tough Houston Rockets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6384,51874,56,58,57,4854,4846,51873,51876],"class_list":{"0":"post-151685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-boston-celtics","9":"tag-derrick-white","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-houston-rockets","14":"tag-kevin-durant","15":"tag-neemias-queta","16":"tag-payton-pritchard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}