The Boston Celtics (9-8) defeat the Orlando Magic (10-8), 138-129.

129 - 138

Box Scores: NBA - Yahoo

GAME SUMMARY

Location: TD Garden

Officials: Curtis Blair, Gediminas Petraitis, and Jenna Reneau

Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
Orlando Magic	27	30	32	40	129
Boston Celtics	32	48	30	28	138

TEAM STATS

Team	PTS	FG	FG%	3P	3P%	FT	FT%	OREB	TREB	AST	PF	STL	TO	BLK
Orlando Magic	129	47-100	47.0%	16-38	42.1%	19-24	79.2%	18	56	33	17	3	7	4
Boston Celtics	138	53-88	60.2%	15-33	45.5%	17-22	77.3%	7	43	29	21	6	5	7

PLAYER STATS


Orlando Magic	MIN	PTS	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	ORB	DRB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	±
Tristan da Silva^SF	23:15	9	4-7	1-2	0-0	0	1	1	2	1	1	0	0	-17
Franz Wagner^PF	27:39	15	5-10	0-1	5-8	2	6	8	5	0	0	2	1	-17
Orlando Robinson^C	13:07	7	3-4	1-1	0-0	2	1	3	1	0	0	0	2	-7
Desmond Bane^SG	28:43	18	6-13	1-2	5-6	3	1	4	5	0	0	1	2	-9
Anthony Black^PG	27:30	14	4-13	2-4	4-5	2	1	3	5	1	0	2	3	-23
Jonathan Isaac	04:53	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	-9
Jett Howard	29:05	30	11-23	5-13	3-3	2	5	7	3	0	0	0	3	0
Tyus Jones	24:40	3	1-6	1-4	0-0	0	1	1	6	0	0	0	1	8
Jamal Cain	16:29	2	1-6	0-4	0-0	2	1	3	0	1	1	1	2	9
Jase Richardson	21:20	18	7-11	3-4	1-1	1	4	5	2	0	0	0	1	8
Noah Penda	23:17	13	5-6	2-2	1-1	4	4	8	4	0	1	0	2	12
Goga Bitadze	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wendell Carter Jr.	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Paolo Banchero	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Colin Castleton	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jalen Suggs	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Moritz Wagner	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Boston Celtics	MIN	PTS	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	ORB	DRB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	±
Jaylen Brown^SF	37:26	35	14-26	2-6	5-7	1	3	4	8	1	0	1	3	12
Jordan Walsh^PF	24:18	5	1-3	0-1	3-4	1	2	3	2	0	1	2	2	-6
Neemias Queta^C	05:51	6	3-3	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	-2
Payton Pritchard^SG	33:32	19	9-16	1-4	0-0	2	3	5	8	2	0	1	1	15
Derrick White^PG	36:19	16	5-11	2-4	4-4	2	5	7	5	2	3	1	2	-2
Anfernee Simons	22:13	23	8-11	4-7	3-3	0	5	5	2	0	0	0	3	7
Sam Hauser	27:29	14	5-8	4-7	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	-6
Chris Boucher	14:20	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	9
Josh Minott	19:30	16	7-8	2-3	0-0	0	7	7	1	0	1	0	1	15
Baylor Scheierman	09:49	2	1-2	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	-6
Hugo González	09:12	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	2	9
Luka Garza	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Xavier Tillman	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Harper Jr.	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Max Shulga	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jayson Tatum	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Amari Williams	00:00	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

heat_fan_ | Raptors

32 | 7 hours ago

. J. BROWN has been a stud this season

Celtics really don’t wanna tank do they

shoegraze | Celtics

16 | 7 hours ago

too much competition for last place i think & brown is too good

geeseam | Spurs

0 | 5 hours ago

Everyone who said “East has too many bad teams for the Celtics to miss the play-ins” in the offseason is probably gonna end up being right

Careful_Past_4843

5 | 5 hours ago

The east is better than the west this year what are you even talking about lol?

East has 10 teams over .500 west has 7

Spurs all in and got 2 more wins than brown and some g leaguers.

0lock

-1 | 6 hours ago

Probably schedule an ‘injury’ for Brown later this season

TreyAdell | Celtics

4 | 5 hours ago

JB is not sitting out games lol. He just said his goal is to play as many games as he can, he’s taking this season as seriously as any other year probably even more so since he has a lot of responsibilities. The dude just played most of the back half of last year and every playoff game on a partially torn meniscus, this isn’t a guy who will load manage, and I highly doubt Mazzulla or Brad would even broach that to him. If the Cs are clearly out of playoff position maybe.

nefnaf | Celtics

1 | 5 hours ago

It’s hard to shift a team’s mindset from tanking directly to winning at a high level. Almost every championship team that underwent a tank year also had a “transition” year where they were mid but no longer tanking.

JoshJones18 | Celtics

1 | 4 hours ago

I don’t think we were ever going to even try and tank in any capacity. That was about as likely as Mazulla watching something besides The Town on repeat

Kyler1313

28 | 7 hours ago

Josh Minott is shooting exactly 40% from 3 now. If that sticks that’s quite the development…

Gamesgtd | Magic

30 | 7 hours ago

I swear if the lessons Mose got from this game is that Tyus Jones is a great vet leader who led the bench to a comeback, I’m going to pull.my hair out. This better spell the end of Tyus Jones and Jon Issac minutes forever.

I’ve been saying Tyus Jones is ass for years and got gaslit by Magic fans obsessed with a shitty assist to turnover ratio into thinking he was good.

Free Jase Richardson

Ennax | Magic

23 | 7 hours ago

What a fun loss.

Our Rookies and Jett Howard really took this opportunity to show what they got and earned themselves more opportunities down the line.

People will argue that this was a winnable game with a few Starters back at the end but I stand fully behind Moses decision here to let the bench guys finish it out, not only from the morale standpoint of the bench having earned that shot, but also from a logical one.

AB, Bane and especially Franz were cold at this point, not even in terms of performances (despite what +/- merchants will claim, they played pretty normal games with just Boston punishing us brutally for the inabiltiy to field a Center), but in that their bodies were cooled down.

Franz sat for like half an hour, you do not bring him back because the guy does not know how not to compete hard. Perhaps he gets us over the edge or he pulls something and we are completely and royally fucked and the latter had a pretty high propability of happening.

You give him a rest in the middle of a brutal schedule and go onto the next when we hopefully have an actual Center to play.

heat_fan_ | Raptors

18 | 7 hours ago

Jett Howard i wasn’t aware of your game

Aeronova20 | Magic

21 | 7 hours ago

neither was he tbf

Aeronova20 | Magic

17 | 7 hours ago

textbook definition of a schedule loss, NBA gotta fix the scheduling fr

home/away back to back missing three starters and two key bench players. proud of showing some fight, onto the next one.

Herakleios | Magic

9 | 7 hours ago

And still technically missing Moe Wagner. We were without ⁴⁄₅ of our regular frontcourt players in Goga, Paolo, Moe, WCJ.

Orlando Robinson started. That’s probably enough to know this was gonna be a loss on a B2B

amidon1130 | Hawks

0 | 5 hours ago

Please god nba cut 10 games from the schedule

Comfortable-Math-158

4 | 4 hours ago

no. signed, a dollar bill

afjecj | Magic

11 | 7 hours ago

Probably jase first real showing of being good enough offensively to cover for his defence so at least there is that I guess. But goddam it we lost to the fucking tatumless bigless Celtics

Dependent-Effect6077

5 | 7 hours ago

Not sure if it will realistically happen but the Celtics could unironically make the Finals if Tatum came back for the playoffs

Flaggitzki | Mavericks

5 | 7 hours ago

orlando are a bad barometer.

Aeronova20 | Magic

28 | 7 hours ago

especially on the second night of a back to back where we’re down 3 starters and 2 bench guys

Flaggitzki | Mavericks

-9 | 7 hours ago

i am on ewing theory side of your 1 starter but that coaching staff is a bit incompetent.

deets23_ | Celtics

2 | 7 hours ago

We beat the Cavs 🤷🏻‍♀️ though it was early in the season and they didn’t have Garland and DMitch injury caught up to him and he went scoreless 2nd half. Was a blowout though

TreyAdell | Celtics

2 | 5 hours ago

I mean the last 10 years of basketball say “Jayson Tatum + Jaylen Brown = wins”

Rook2Rook

-6 | 7 hours ago

The thing is how will they beat the Knicks with a worse team than they had last year? They were going to be down 3-1 and almost surely would’ve lost the series regardless of Tatum’s injury.

HappyDuck123 | Celtics

7 | 6 hours ago

The only gripe I have with that series is that no one mentions the fact that 4 of 5 Celtics starters were dealing with nagging injuries. Yet they could have easily been up 3-1 if they shot even below average from 3.

G2KY | Celtics

7 | 7 hours ago

Sorry guys I missed the match… Queta got injured, Boucher played 9 minutes, Tillman and Garza did not play according to the box score in NBA App. Who tf was our center?

ultranonymous11 | Magic

12 | 7 hours ago

We started a G leaguer at center as we had three centers out.

G2KY | Celtics

3 | 7 hours ago

Who was your center? This league needs more centers… We all need more centers

ultranonymous11 | Magic

11 | 7 hours ago

Orlando Robinson. Wendell Carter Jr, Goga Bitazde, and Moe Wagner were all out.

Renegadeforever2024 | Raptors

4 | 7 hours ago

Celtics could shock the world when Tatum gets back later in the season

IcyMission3 | Celtics

5 | 6 hours ago

Most dangerous 9th seed in NBA history!

nefnaf | Celtics

4 | 5 hours ago

They need at least 1 more big man to really do anything as far as postseason, even if Tatum comes back strong.

Queta has been good, but he still fouls too much to be counted on for 30+ minutes a night. And the options when he sits are not good.

Mrr_Bond | Magic

6 | 7 hours ago

Well that was pretty encouraging seeing the young guys ball out like that. Penda looks like he might be a steal for a 2nd rounder.

MalcolmSupleX | Magic

2 | 6 hours ago

I thought Franz was the +/- goat let this sub tell it. 😂

Hollatoe

1 | 7 hours ago

Dammit I forgot the Magic were playing tonight smh

varietyman13

1 | 5 hours ago

The Celtics have to end this season 41-41. They’re the most .500 type team of all time.

__BURRITOBRAWL

1 | 3 hours ago

d00d Celtics could make the Finals when Tatum comes back!!

He’s not coming back this season and no they wouldn’t even if he did.

d00d when the Celtics gonna start tanking??

This season isn’t about tanking and never has been.

Seeing this shit in every Celtics thread. Update your bots, Eglin.

birdazam | Timberwolves

1 | 23 minutes ago

Even though Celtics don’t have a chance to win it all this season having Brown be the guy for a year is going to do wonder for them down the line