{"id":395082,"date":"2022-12-08T02:08:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T07:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395082"},"modified":"2022-12-08T05:10:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T10:10:54","slug":"tatum-brown-power-celtics-to-comfortable-victory-over-suns","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tatum-brown-power-celtics-to-comfortable-victory-over-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatum, Brown power Celtics to comfortable victory over Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rolling Boston embarrassed the sloppy Phoenix Suns 125-98 on Wednesday night as the Celtics won for the eighth time in nine games, improving its NBA-best record to 21-5.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On to the next one \u2618\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SLAkJaOZnI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SLAkJaOZnI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1600721270831648768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown each notched 25 points, Malcolm Brogdon added 16 off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou enjoy the moment, but you\u2019ve got to understand why you did it,\u201d Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said after the expected showdown between two of the league\u2019s top teams never materialized with Boston leading by 45 points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen you\u2019ve got to know that it\u2019s a long year. This could happen to us. It might not, but we\u2019re going to go through some type of obstacles throughout the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The hot hand made a play in tonight&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JetBlue?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JetBlue<\/a> Play of the Game \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/og2HX2FfEQ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/og2HX2FfEQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1600724528556310528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Phoenix, who lost for the third time in four games, came into the game with the best record in a crowded Western Conference race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t compete the way we needed to compete tonight,\u201d Suns center Deandre Ayton said.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Okogie led Phoenix with a career-high 28 points off the bench, while Devin Booker finished with 17. Chris Paul scored four points, four rebounds and added four assists in 24 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rolling Boston embarrassed the sloppy Phoenix Suns 125-98 on Wednesday night as the Celtics won for the eighth time in nine games, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395083,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,17087,17086,16942,17005],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"the Celtics won for the eighth time in nine games","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395082"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395082"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}