{"id":434796,"date":"2023-05-04T00:29:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T04:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=434796"},"modified":"2023-05-04T00:29:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T04:29:24","slug":"celtics-demolish-76ers-121-87-to-tie-it-up-at-1-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/celtics-demolish-76ers-121-87-to-tie-it-up-at-1-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics demolish 76ers 121-87 to tie it up at 1-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics defeated Philadelphia 76ers in a dominant fashion 121-87 in Game 2 to make the overall score 1-1 of the 2nd round of playoffs on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">STATEMENT W \u2618\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BeatPHILA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BeatPHILA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d8mzkLsKL5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/d8mzkLsKL5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1653947190073516032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nJaylen Brown starred for the Celtics as he bagged home 25 points. Malcom Brogdon scored 23 points, while Derrick White and Marcus Smart added another 15 apiece.<\/p>\n<p>It was a dominant display all round for the Boston team, who at one point led up to 36 points in the score.<\/p>\n<p>For 76ers the brightening news was the return of Joel Embiid from a sprained right knee, which forced him to miss the entire 1st round against Brooklyn. He finished the game with 15 points, three rebounds and five blocks. Tobias Harris was Philadelphia&#8217;s highest scorer with 16 points.<\/p>\n<p>James Harden had a night to forget after scoring only 12 points after bagging an impressive 45 in Game 1.<\/p>\n<p>Game 3 is on Friday night and Boston will be looking to keep this momentum up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  id=\"_ytid_72411\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8W-0n9ndeR4?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"YouTube player\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/8W-0n9ndeR4\/maxresdefault.jpg\" title=\"\"><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics defeated Philadelphia 76ers in a dominant fashion 121-87 in Game 2 to make the overall score 1-1 of the 2nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":434797,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,17464,16869,17086,16841,18957,16840],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"A scintillating performance sees the Boston team overcome a tough Game 1 loss","video":["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\/434796"}],"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=434796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434796"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=434796"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=434796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}