In their final game before the NBA All-Star Break, the Boston Celtics destroyed the Chicago Bulls 124-105 at TD Garden on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Coming off one of their worst losses of the season after getting blown out<\/a> by the New York Knicks on Super Bowl Sunday, the Celtics bounced back in a big way. Boston raced out to a fast start and the game was essentially over by halftime, as the home team already led 72-44 by that point.<\/p>\n NBA All-Star starter<\/a> Jaylen Brown led the way for the Celtics with 24 points, four rebounds and four assists. Payton Pritchard also had a big game off the bench with a game-high 26 points and eight assists.<\/p>\n Nikola Vucevic dominated his former team in his first game against them since being traded last week<\/a>, recording a double-double with 19 points and 11 rebounds in 26 minutes off the bench.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Anfernee Simons got a nice applause<\/a> in his first game back at TD Garden since being dealt to the Bulls<\/a> last week in the Vucevic trade. He struggled with his shot, however, scoring just seven points on 3-of-9 shooting from the floor, including 1-of-6 from deep.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n With the game already in hand, Joe Mazzulla was able to rest his starters a bit in the second half and give his bench some run. Jordan Walsh scored 16 points in 29 minutes, while Ron Harper Jr. played 16 minutes.<\/p>\n After winning six of their last seven games, the Celtics enter the All-Star Break with a 35-19 record and the second seed in the Eastern Conference behind the Detroit Pistons. After getting a full week off, they\u2019ll look to pick up where they left off when they kick off a four-game road trip against the Golden State Warriors next Thursday.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In their final game before the NBA All-Star Break, the Boston Celtics destroyed the Chicago Bulls 124-105 at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[4329,7,920,919,329,3824,78,6,3853],"class_list":{"0":"post-600267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-anfernee-simons","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bulls","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-bulls","13":"tag-chicagobulls","14":"tag-jaylen-brown","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nikola-vucevic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116061619077024379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600267","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=600267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}