{"id":512858,"date":"2026-01-03T00:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/512858\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T00:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:45:15","slug":"celtics-survive-slow-start-vs-sacramento-kings-win-120-106-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/512858\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics survive slow start vs. Sacramento Kings, win 120-106 (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics survived a slow start vs. the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/sacramento-kings\/23\/\" data-autotag=\"3167e433-c189-4ca5-b7ab-4c9e41dbb11b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> in their 120-106 win on Thursday (Jan 1.) night at Golden 1 Center to improve to 21-12 on the season, and a late push from Derrick White (16 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals, and as many blocks) and the bench following Jaylen Brown (29 points, 10 boards, 4 assists) and Anfernee Simons (14 points, 2 rebounds, 4 assists) sustaining the team earlier in the game helped make it all possible for Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Holding Sacramento to just 33% from beyond the arc played a role (though you might not have known it given how hot the Kings shot in the game&#8217;s first quarter), and won the battle of the boards 40-32 as well. The Celtics next play the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday (Jan. 3) night to finish off their longest road trip of the 2025-26 NBA regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at some of the best plays captured in images from the win.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Havlicek Stole the Pod&#8221; on:<\/p>\n<p>Blue Wire:<a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/tiny.ee\/CdKp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/RK47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tiny.ee\/cOW3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics survived a slow start vs. the Sacramento Kings in their 120-106 win on Thursday (Jan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[4775,4329,7,1510,1243,4056,70,85,6,67,61,134,132,986,477,4055,4776,66,83,1511],"class_list":["post-512858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento-kings","tag-anfernee","tag-anfernee-simons","tag-basketball","tag-derrick","tag-derrick-white","tag-kings","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramentokings","tag-simons","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-white"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115828406830207676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}