Thanks to a record first quarter, the Boston Celtics beat the Miami Heat 147:129 in a game in which Jaylen Brown scored 43 points and Jayson Tatum had his first triple-double of the season.
Tatum finished the game with 25 points, 18 rebounds and 11 assists for Boston, who scored 53 points in the first quarter – franchise record which also ties for the second highest number of points in the opening quarter in NBA history.
Sam Hauser added 23 points for the Celtics, who are 31-0 this season when scoring at least 117 points and have won 10 of their last 11 games. Bh. basketball player Luka Garza scored 12 points with two rebounds in just under 15 minutes of play.
Boston at one point had i 27 point advantagebut Miami cut the deficit to nine points early in the fourth quarter. Boston (51-25) currently holds second place in the Eastern Conference race, four wins behind first-place Detroit.
Bam Adebayo had 29 points and 10 rebounds for Miami, which tied a franchise record with 24 3-pointers. The Heat hit the same number of 3-pointers three more times before.
Davion Mitchell scored 21 points, while Tyler Herro and Pelle Larsson scored 18 each, and Jaime Jaquez Jr. he added 17 points for the Heat (40-37).
Miami remained in tenth place in the battle for play-in in the East. The Heat are a half-win behind eighth-ranked Orlando and ninth-ranked Charlotte, teams that are both 40-36.
German basketball player Franz Wagner, who had been out of action since February 11 due to an ankle injury, returned to the team Orlando Magic just before the start of the NBA playoffs. However, in his first game, he could not prevent his team’s convincing defeat against the Atlanta Hawks with a score of 101:130.
A direct playoff berth is looking less and less likely for the Magic.
Six games before the end of the regular season, Orlando would have to overtake the Toronto Raptors, Philadelphia 76ers and Charlotte Hornets. However, Orlando has only won two of their last ten games.
Victor Wembanyama he scored 41 points for the second game in a row, with 18 rebounds and three blocks, and San Antonio Spurs were convincingly defeated by injuries weakened Golden State Warriors with a score of 127:113, which extended the winning streak to ten games.
The Spurs (58-18) won for the 15th time in their last 16 games and continue to chase the first-place Oklahoma City Thunder (60-16) in the battle for first place in the Western Conference.
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