BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama scored 16 of his 21 points in the second half, including a game-sealing jumper with 19.2 seconds left, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Boston Celtics 100-95 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
De’Aaron Fox also finished with 21 points for the Spurs and Keldon Johnson added 18 points and 10 rebounds. San Antonio won its second straight after losing two in a row.<\/p>\n
Derrick White led Boston with 29 points and Jaylen Brown had 27. The Celtics lost for just the third time in 12 games.<\/p>\n
The game was tied at 84 before Baylor Scheierman\u2019s corner 3-pointer pushed Boston ahead with just under seven minutes left. White followed with a driving basket before the Spurs went on a 9-2 spree, taking a 93-91 lead on Johnson\u2019s 3-pointer with 2:14 left.<\/p>\n
After Brown\u2019s layup tied it, Wembanyama\u2019s fadeaway jumper pushed San Antonio back in front with 1:33 to go.<\/p>\n
Brown was then stripped of the ball near midcourt by Fox, and Julian Champagnie converted a putback of his own miss to make it 97-93 with 41 seconds left.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama\u2019s left-wing jumper made it 99-95.<\/p>\n
Playing his third straight game after missing a pair with a sore knee, Wembanyama didn\u2019t score his first points until hitting a 3 from the top midway into the second quarter.<\/p>\n
But he got going in the second half, scoring nine consecutive points for San Antonio midway into the third quarter, bringing the Spurs back from a nine-point deficit to tie it on his three-point play.<\/p>\n
Coming off a victory over the Raptors a night earlier, the Celtics seemed locked in defensively against Wembanyama early, mixing in double teams and sending a few players at him quickly when he attempted to drive.<\/p>\n
Spurs: At Minnesota on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Celtics: At Indiana on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama scored 16 of his 21 points in the second half, including a game-sealing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,73085,1314,1243,78,4076,2850,6,29499,29496,29494,62644,29498,73086,62649,969,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-528671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-celtics-spurs-score","14":"tag-deaaron-fox","15":"tag-derrick-white","16":"tag-jaylen-brown","17":"tag-julian-champagnie","18":"tag-keldon-johnson","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","21":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","22":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","23":"tag-product-32547-ap-online-basketball-game-stories","24":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","25":"tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","26":"tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","27":"tag-san-antonio","28":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528671","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=528671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}