{"id":559718,"date":"2026-01-25T10:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/559718\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:58:15","slug":"today-in-boston-celtics-history-it-gets-38-vs-rockets-knicks-held-to-46-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/559718\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Boston Celtics history: IT gets 38 vs. Rockets; Knicks held to 46 points"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today in Boston Celtics history, the team set a record by limiting the scoring of their opponent in that game to the fourth-lowest score in their storied club’s seven-plus decades of existence. The record was set in the team’s first season of existence (1946-47) \u2013 which just so happens to be the first season of the Basketball Association of America (BAA, a precursor league to the NBA). The contest was played a mere two days after Boston set a record for the second-lowest score an opponent was held to in Celtics history, a 48-43 win over the (now defunct) Pittsburgh Ironmen.<\/p>\n

The Celtics nearly duplicated the feat in a 52-46 win over the New York Knicks<\/a> on Jan. 25, 1947. Boston was led by 17 points from forward Al Brightman, with big man Connie Simmons chipping in 16 more.<\/p>\n

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Only one player on New York’s roster broke double digits with a dozen points, that being forward Bud Palmer.<\/p>\n

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Dec 30, 2016; Boston, MA, USA; Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas (4) smiles during the second half against the Miami Heat at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Winslow Townson-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

It is also the date of a 38-point performance from Celtic point guard Isaiah Thomas on this date in 2017.<\/p>\n

IT also pulled down 5 rebounds and dished out 9 assists in the 120-109 home win over the Houston Rockets<\/a> for one of the best all-around regular-season games of his career.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: Celtics history: IT gets 38 vs. Rockets; Knicks held to 46 points<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today in Boston Celtics history, the team set a record by limiting the scoring of their opponent in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,4226,75,32084,194,1535,6,191],"class_list":["post-559718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-association-of-america","tag-boston-celtics","tag-celtics-history","tag-houston-rockets","tag-isaiah-thomas","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115955388781434121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559718","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=559718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}