{"id":6114,"date":"2023-01-10T03:04:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T03:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/celtics-beat-bulls-107-99-extending-nba-record-to-29-12\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T03:04:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T03:04:19","slug":"celtics-beat-bulls-107-99-extending-nba-record-to-29-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/celtics-beat-bulls-107-99-extending-nba-record-to-29-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics beat Bulls 107-99, extending NBA record to 29-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-key=\"article\">\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Jayson Tatum had 32 points and Jaylen Brown had 19 as the Boston Celtics beat the Chicago Bulls 107-99 Monday night to reach the halfway point of the season in an NBA record. Added points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">Grant Williams added 20 points and Al Horford had 7 rebounds and 8 points. This included a clutch 3-pointer with 24 seconds left in his 41st game that gave the Eastern 29-12 victory to his conference champions defending champions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">Malcolm Brogdon scored 20 points for Boston playing point guard Marcus Smart uninjured. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">Zach LaVine led Chicago with 27 points and scored 15 in the 4th quarter, leading the Bulls&#8217; ferocious comeback bid.  Chicago, who had won three in a row, hurt his right quadriceps in the third quarter and lost to DeMar and his DeRozan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">Nikola Vucevic had 21 points and 13 rebounds for Chicago. DeRozan scored 13 points in 23 minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">Lavigne&#8217;s 3-point shot gave Chicago a 99-97 lead, but in the final minute Chicago removed the jumper and the Celtics rebounded to Tatum. On the ball to Horford he makes a 3-pointer. Horford&#8217;s shot bounced off the rim and he took a 104-99 lead with 24 seconds remaining. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">LaVine missed the Bulls again, and Tatum scored a two-handed dunk, drew a foul, and converted a free throw to seal it with 12 seconds remaining. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">Lavigne&#8217;s layup went 11 points down in the fourth quarter and Chicago trailed 89-84. However, the Celtics responded to the surge with back-to-back jumpers from Brown and three-point plays from Williams. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">The Celtics led 59-50 at halftime, with the Bulls making 3 of their 6 turnovers in the final minutes and the Celtics closing out the period with a 9-2 run before the biggest win of the game. Comparable to the lead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">tip in<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">Bulls: G Alex Caruso returned in the first quarter after missing the final two games with a sprained right ankle. He finished with his 6 points&#8230;. G Javonte Green (sore right knee) and C Tony Bradley (Health and Safety Protocol) did not play. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">Celtics: Tatum scored 10 points midway through the first quarter and scored 12 of Boston&#8217;s 28 points in the first period. He finished the game with 7 assists and 8 rebounds.  &#8230; Smart exited in the third quarter in Saturday&#8217;s win in San Antonio after colliding with Zach Collins. Boston manager Joe Mazura said Monday morning that Smart&#8217;s knee was still in pain and that he was being considered on a daily basis after being ruled out of Monday&#8217;s game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">next<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">Bulls: Visit Washington on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">Celtics: Host New Orleans on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-46 p Component-p-0-2-37\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba and https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Sports<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMie2h0dHBzOi8vYXBuZXdzLmNvbS9hcnRpY2xlL2NoaWNhZ28tYnVsbHMtYm9zdG9uLWNlbHRpY3Mtc3BvcnRzLW5iYS1iYXNrZXRiYWxsLWpheXNvbi10YXR1bS1kYWQzMDQ3ZWNiODE1M2YzMGZiNDFiM2RmMDFhNWQ5MtIBAA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Jayson Tatum had 32 points and Jaylen Brown had 19 as the Boston Celtics beat the Chicago Bulls 107-99 Monday night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1673323430_3000-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}