{"id":475158,"date":"2024-01-07T03:58:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T07:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=475158"},"modified":"2024-01-07T03:52:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T07:52:50","slug":"boston-holds-pacers-to-a-season-low-point-total-in-another-tatum-show","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/boston-holds-pacers-to-a-season-low-point-total-in-another-tatum-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston holds Pacers to a season-low point total in another Tatum show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\">Boston Celtics<\/a> secured a 118-101 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a>, putting an end to the Pacers&#8217; impressive six-game winning streak. Jayson Tatum showcased his scoring prowess by notching 38 points, including a season-high eight 3-pointers, while Jaylen Brown contributed 31 points to the Celtics&#8217; success.<\/p>\n<p>Tatum, who also demonstrated his versatility with 13 rebounds and six assists, partnered with Brown to account for 27 of the Celtics&#8217; 46 baskets. The team exhibited efficient shooting, finishing the night with a 51% field goal percentage and maintaining control of the game without trailing.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the contest with a stellar defensive record (third in NBA field-goal percentage defense at .449) and strong rebounding (third in rebound rate), Boston held the Pacers to a season-low point total and dominated the boards with a commanding 70-42 rebounding advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss, Bennedict Mathurin led the Pacers with 20 points, while All-Star Tyrese Haliburton showcased an all-around performance with 17 points, seven assists, six rebounds, and five steals.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2q7OOCDvZpk?si=fy_oFRbC2UI6X0Ei\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night, the Boston Celtics secured a 118-101 victory over the Indiana Pacers, putting an end to the Pacers&#8217; impressive six-game winning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":475163,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,16971,16942],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18062,18386,18064],"acf":{"announce":"Celtics put an end to the Pacers' impressive six-game winning streak","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\/475158"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475167,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475158\/revisions\/475167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475158"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=475158"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=475158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}