{"id":488888,"date":"2024-12-13T02:29:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T06:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=488888"},"modified":"2024-12-13T02:29:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T06:29:29","slug":"pritchard-scores-27-against-pistons-for-celtics-20th-season-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pritchard-scores-27-against-pistons-for-celtics-20th-season-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Pritchard scores 27 against Pistons for Celtics&#8217; 20th season win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Payton Pritchard scored 27 points and hit seven 3-pointers as the <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\/\"><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\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\">Boston Celtics<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> cruised past the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/detroit-pistons\/\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> 123-99 on Thursday night, marking their 20th win of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Pritchard\u2019s performance, highlighted by his 500th career 3-pointer, bolstered his candidacy for Sixth Man of the Year. Derrick White added 23 points and matched Pritchard\u2019s seven 3s, as Boston sank 20 from beyond the arc and stretched their lead to as many as 32 points in the fourth quarter. Six Celtics scored in double figures during the dominant win.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Shooting star \ud83c\udf20<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gatorade?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Gatorade<\/a> Player of the Game stayed hot <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ju3WXZ7TZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2ju3WXZ7TZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1867402928027578469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cade Cunningham led the Pistons with 18 points, eight rebounds, and eight assists, but Detroit struggled mightily from deep, shooting just 7 of 37 from the 3-point line, including 2 of 19 in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Boston played without All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/jayson-tatum\/\">Jayson Tatum<\/a>, who rested due to a sore right knee, and Sam Hauser, sidelined with a strained abdominal muscle. Coach Joe Mazzulla downplayed the seriousness of Tatum\u2019s knee issue.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics outscored the Pistons 34-24 in the third quarter to turn a 15-point halftime lead into a 93-68 advantage heading into the final frame.<\/p>\n<p>Up next, the Pistons will host the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\">Miami Heat<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> on Monday, while the Celtics travel to face the Washington Wizards on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xPOs-1Nnhek?si=mm17qbcDpiWy_HA8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payton Pritchard scored 27 points and hit seven 3-pointers as the Boston Celtics cruised past the Detroit Pistons 123-99 on Thursday night, marking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":488889,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,16727,23379],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18062,18432,23380],"acf":{"announce":"Even without their leading man Jayson Tatum, Boston had no troubles winning by 24 points - 123-99","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\/488888"}],"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=488888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/488888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488890,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/488888\/revisions\/488890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488888"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=488888"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=488888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}