Jaylen Brown’s 41 focuses help the Celtics pass Prods 137-93
Jaylen Brown scored 41 focuses and snatched 13 bounce back to lead the Boston Celtics to a 137-93 triumph over the San Antonio Prods on Sunday night.
The Celtics were without star forward and driving scorer Jayson Tatum, who was sidelined with a left hip wound. However, Boston actually moved to 1½ games behind Milwaukee for the Eastern Meeting’s best record with its seventh triumph in nine games.
“Whenever you persuade the chance to be the person that everyone’s sort of resting on, it’s an honor, it’s an honor,” Brown said. “I don’t underestimate those minutes. Consistently, I lash my shoes up and I prepare my folks to go.”
Malcolm Brogdon added 20 focuses and nine helps for Boston, and Derrick White had 19 focuses with eight bounce back.
Zach Collins scored 21 focuses with seven bounce back for San Antonio, which was without 2022 10th generally speaking draft pick Jeremy Sochan (sore right knee) for the fourth time in five games. Keldon Johnson, who scored 30 in a misfortune Friday at Washington, was likewise out.
“We played well for about a quarter, however after that, I thought we just yielded,” Spikes mentor Gregg Popovich said. “I thought we humiliated ourselves by giving in the manner we did. However, the Celtics had a great deal to do with that.”
Malaki Branham added 15 focuses and Sandro Mamukelashvili 13 for the Prods, who lost every one of the four rounds of their excursion.