{"id":481502,"date":"2024-04-03T22:35:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T02:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481502"},"modified":"2024-04-03T22:42:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T02:42:21","slug":"porzingis-notches-27-as-celtics-beat-thunder-135-100-at-td-garden","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/porzingis-notches-27-as-celtics-beat-thunder-135-100-at-td-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Porzingis notches 27 as Celtics beat Thunder 135-100 at TD Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kristaps-porzingis\/\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> finished with 27 points and 5 blocks, leading the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\">Boston Celtics<\/a> to a 135-100 triumph against the Oklahoma City Thunder, and the team secured the best record in the league and home-court advantage throughout the postseason.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/jayson-tatum\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/jayson-tatum\/\">Jayson Tatum<\/a><\/a> scored 24 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/jaylen-brown\/\">Jaylen Brown<\/a> notched 23 and had 7 boards for the Celtics, which won its 11<sup>th<\/sup> straight match at TD Garden and improved to 60-16 on the campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Crushed Q4 for the W \u2705<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DifferentHere?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DifferentHere<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WO69CfxsjA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WO69CfxsjA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1775706779378221444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Boston trailed for only a minute and 2 seconds in the match.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics led by as many as 16 in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half before OKC cut it to 6 points in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> quarter. Leading by 10 after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 3 quarters, Boston started the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter with a 12-4 run and got a comfortable lead at the beginning of the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/josh-giddey\/\">Josh Giddey<\/a> led Thunder with 17 points, and Luguentz Dort finished with 15. Oklahoma City finished with 14 turnovers and scored only 5 three-pointers from 24 shots. The team played without superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who sat for the 4<sup>th<\/sup> time in 5 matches with an injury. <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/jalen-williams\/\">Jalen Williams<\/a> also missed his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> consecutive with an ankle problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Boston Celtics have beaten the Thunder at the Garden, and for the first time in 14 years, have clinched the NBA\u2019s best record and home-court advantage throughout the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>At 60-16, they do it with six games remaining. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kp1Rk2Gieo\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Kp1Rk2Gieo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Grande (@SeanGrandePBP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanGrandePBP\/status\/1775703848348226002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City will play against the Pacers in Indiana at the end of the week, while Boston welcomes at TD Garden the Kings on the same day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4e9jxre6eDc?si=YlBNd52EXRMQPKDo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristaps Porzingis finished with 27 points and 5 blocks, leading the Boston Celtics to a 135-100 triumph against the Oklahoma City Thunder, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481503,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,17837,16786],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18062,17840,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Boston secured a home-court advantage in the playoffs with the victory.","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\/481502"}],"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=481502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481506,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481502\/revisions\/481506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481502"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481502"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}