{"id":492486,"date":"2025-04-24T02:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492486"},"modified":"2025-04-24T02:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:29:16","slug":"jaylen-brown-leads-tatum-less-celtics-to-game-2-victory-over-magic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jaylen-brown-leads-tatum-less-celtics-to-game-2-victory-over-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown leads Tatum-less Celtics to Game 2 victory over Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"79\" data-end=\"387\">With All-Star Jayson Tatum sidelined due to a bone bruise in his right wrist, Jaylen Brown took command and delivered a stellar performance to lead the Boston Celtics to a 109-100 win over the Orlando Magic on Wednesday night at TD Garden. The win gives Boston a 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Guarded our yard \ud83d\udcaa<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\/MfJVmtaXP1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MfJVmtaXP1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1915219571499245890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"389\" data-end=\"702\">Brown, who had told head coach Joe Mazzulla he would do \u201ceverything it takes to win,\u201d backed up his words with a dominant effort \u2014 scoring 36 points, grabbing 10 rebounds, and adding five assists. It marked a statement performance in Tatum\u2019s absence, who missed a postseason game for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"704\" data-end=\"845\">\u201cObviously, JT is the offensive leader, and we play off of him,\u201d Brown said after the game. \u201cBut any given night I can rise to the occasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"847\" data-end=\"1085\">Boston also saw a strong contribution from Kristaps Porzingis, who returned after briefly exiting with a bleeding gash to the forehead. The big man finished with 20 points, playing a key role in maintaining the Celtics\u2019 interior presence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">War ready \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/21kp6aPX3Q\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/21kp6aPX3Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1915210683781636541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1087\" data-end=\"1410\">The Celtics built a 15-point lead in the second half, but had to withstand a late surge from the Magic. Orlando, led by Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner, narrowed the gap in the final quarter, but the Celtics&#8217; poise prevailed. Boston finished the night with 12 made three-pointers and shot 25-of-33 from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1412\" data-end=\"1575\">Derrick White also made a crucial impact in the fourth quarter, scoring 17 points overall and combining with Brown for 17 of Boston\u2019s 28 points in the final frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1577\" data-end=\"1680\">Now Game 3 shifts to Orlando, where the Magic will look to regroup and defend home court on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1577\" data-end=\"1680\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H0HaehaDNc0?si=tP9w5UpoLBQysQ8h\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With All-Star Jayson Tatum sidelined due to a bone bruise in his right wrist, Jaylen Brown took command and delivered a stellar performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":492487,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,17086,16942,16758],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18062,18673,18064,17892],"acf":{"announce":"The reigning champs showed great form even without their star and won comfortably 109-100","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\/492486"}],"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=492486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492488,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492486\/revisions\/492488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492486"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492486"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}