{"id":475653,"date":"2024-01-11T23:36:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T03:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=475653"},"modified":"2024-01-11T23:36:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T03:36:59","slug":"bucks-destroy-nba-leading-celtics-135-102-at-fiserv-forum","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bucks-destroy-nba-leading-celtics-135-102-at-fiserv-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks destroy NBA-leading Celtics 135-102 at Fiserv Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Portis and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a><\/a><\/a> combined to notch 20 consecutive points during a 25-0 spurt in the middle of the 1st half, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/milwaukee-bucks\/\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> humiliated the league-leading <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\">Boston Celtics<\/a><\/a><\/a> 135-102 at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, WI.<\/p>\n<p>Portis finished with 28 points, and Antetokounmpo notched 24 points as both basketballers had 12 boards to secure the team\u2019s victory for just the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> time in 6 matches. Damian Lillard added 21 points in his return to the court after missing Milwaukee\u2019s 132-116 defeat against the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/utah-jazz\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/utah-jazz\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/utah-jazz\/\">Utah Jazz<\/a><\/a><\/a> at the same venue at the beginning of the week because of personal reasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The No. 2 Bucks demolish No. 1 Celtics at home ?<\/p>\n<p>Jrue Holiday had only 6 PTS in his return to Milwaukee. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oiPmkc8Glu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oiPmkc8Glu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooSports\/status\/1745639243681050726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The home organization led by as many as 43 points in Jrue Holiday&#8217;s return at Fiserv Forum, and their 75-38 lead at halftime was their 4<sup>th<\/sup> biggest 1st-half advantage in the team\u2019s history. Milwaukee hasn\u2019t competed since Monday, while Boston was back on the court 1 night after defeating the Minnesota Timberwolves 127-120 in OT.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Giannis had it going from the jump.<\/p>\n<p>24 PTS | 12 REB | 6 AST <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iv2RhrWvRy\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iv2RhrWvRy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bucks\/status\/1745649365077594207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Celtics allowed its highest point total of the campaign and gave a break to its crucial basketballers for the entire 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half. Milwaukee rested its starters in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams play again on Saturday as Boston welcomes the Rockets, while Milwaukee will host the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/94RCtllvEmE?si=KLv_g89HEPkWtyOR\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Portis and Giannis Antetokounmpo combined to notch 20 consecutive points during a 25-0 spurt in the middle of the 1st half, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":475655,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,16726,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18062,17841,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Milwaukee sparks a 25-0 spurt during the triumph at their venue.","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\/475653"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475658,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475653\/revisions\/475658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475653"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=475653"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=475653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}