The New Guy found his groove and the Celtics rediscovered their three-point shot as Boston crushed the Brooklyn Nets, 148-111, in the Garden.
Nikola Vučević caught 11 rebounds and scored 28 points off the bench, including nine points on three-of-three three-point shooting. Overall, the Celtics were 22-34 on threes (64.7%), with Mr. Brown going four-for-four on his way to 28 points, tying Vučević, and Mr. White got all 12 of his night's points on four-of-eight shooting from outside the line. Pritchard was 4-5 on threes on his way to 22 points, and both Scheierman and Walsh went 2-2 from downtown.
The Celtics also outrebounded the Nets, 39-25, but I'm not going to gloat. The Nets are struggling and, quite frankly, aren't that good a team.
Boston (39-20) still leads the Atlantic Division and are 5½ back from Detroit in the Eastern Conference.
Sunday night, the Celtics will host Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and the rest of the last-place Philadelphia 76ers (33-26). The game starts at 8:00 and will be carried by NBC.
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