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ESPN News Services
Mar 3, 2024, 07:10 PM ET
BOSTON– Jaylen Brown scored 29 points, Jayson Tatum had 27 on his 26th birthday and the NBA-best Boston Celtics published their third-largest winning margin in franchise history, drubbing the tired Golden State Warriors 140-88 on Sunday.
Payton Pritchard included 19 points for the Celtics, who set a league record with their 3rd win this season by 50 points or more and extended their season-best winning streak to 11 video games. Boston led by a franchise-record 44 points at halftime and pressed it to 51 early in the 3rd quarter before coach Joe Mazzulla went to his reserves the remainder of the method.
The Celtics are beating groups by approximately 22.1 points over their previous 11 video games, the very best point differential over a win streak of a minimum of 10 video games in a single season in NBA history, according to Elias Sports Bureau research study.
Boston has actually outscored groups by 29.8 PPG over their previous 6 video games, a period that consists of 2 50-point wins, something that just 2 other groups have actually performed in a whole season. That’s the very best point differential over a six-game period in NBA history, passing the 1971-72 Lakers (+28.3 ), who won a then-record 69 video games.
“It feels fantastic, however, at the exact same time, it’s constantly within humbleness,” Brown stated. “We do not take the video game for approved. We didn’t come and mess around which’s simply how we reveal our regard to the video game, we deal with organization and look after it. … It’s a great deal of regard for the Golden State Warriors, however we seem like it’s our time now.”
Stephen Curry didn’t play the 2nd half and ended up with a season-low 4 points for Golden State, his least given that he had 3 points in 16 minutes on March 16, 2022, at Boston– a video game he left with a foot injury. Curry was 2-of-13 from the field Sunday and missed out on all 9 of his 3-point efforts, consisting of successive airballs in the opening quarter.
“The manner in which they’ve been playing, they appear extremely sure of themselves in their identity and who they are,” Curry stated. “Give them credit. They came out and whooped us this evening from the dive, and it was among those ideal storms of a rough [day] on our end and them taking it to us.”
It was the fourth-worst loss in franchise history for the Warriors. They had actually won 11 of 13, consisting of the very first 3 of their East Coast journey that consisted of 3 video games in 4 days and a hard journey to Toronto in which they rested on a tarmac for hours overnight.
Lester Quinones led Golden State with 17 points in a team-high 33 minutes. None of the Warriors’ beginners played more than 20 minutes, and Moses Moody (11 points) was the only one to score in double figures.