{"id":613157,"date":"2026-02-20T06:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/613157\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T06:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:51:20","slug":"brown-helps-celtics-thump-curry-less-warriors-121-110-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/613157\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown helps Celtics thump Curry-less Warriors 121-110"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Jaylen Brown<\/a> had 23 points, 15 rebounds and 13 assists for his third triple-double of the season, and the Boston Celtics<\/a> rolled over a Golden State Warriors<\/a> team playing without Stephen Curry<\/a>, 121-110 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Payton Pritchard<\/a> added 26 points and Sam Hauser<\/a> scored 16 to help Boston win for the seventh time in eight games and spoil the Golden State debut of former Celtic Kristaps Porzingis.<\/p>\n

Brown, the leading scorer in the Eastern Conference before the All-Star break, matched his career-high in rebounds, all on the defensive end. His 13 assists are a career-best.<\/p>\n

It was the All-Star’s fifth career triple-double.<\/p>\n

Porzingis played in 99 games over two seasons in Boston and winning a championship before getting traded to Atlanta over the summer. The Warriors acquired him from the Hawks<\/a> at the trade deadline but the oft-injured 7-foot-2 center had been nursing a left Achilles injury.<\/p>\n

The Warriors played without two-time NBA<\/a> MVP Curry, who is sidelined with a knee injury. Golden State is 6-11 this season when Curry doesn\u2019t play.<\/p>\n

Golden State struggled to get much going without their star.<\/p>\n

De’Anthony Melton had 18 points and Will Richard<\/a> and Gui Santos<\/a> had 17 each for the Warriors. Porzingis had 12 points.<\/p>\n

Boston led by 30 then had to hold on when Golden State made a run in the fourth quarter. Gary Payton II<\/a>\u2019s dunk got the Warriors within 111-99 with six minutes left before Pritchard made back-to-back 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

Brown had eight points and was one of eight Celtics to score in the first quarter. <\/p>\n

Boston pulled away after that. The Celtics opened the second quarter with a 17-2 run, driving past Porzingis several times while building a 74-51 halftime lead.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Celtics: Face the Lakers in Los Angeles on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Warriors: Host Denver on Sunday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Jaylen Brown had 23 points, 15 rebounds and 13 assists for his third triple-double…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,75,79016,1347,164,870,78,1407,6,405,2080,573,17879],"class_list":{"0":"post-613157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-event_recap","11":"tag-gary-payton-ii","12":"tag-golden-state-warriors","13":"tag-gui-santos","14":"tag-jaylen-brown","15":"tag-national-basketball-association","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-payton-pritchard","18":"tag-sam-hauser","19":"tag-stephen-curry","20":"tag-will-richard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116101636649464324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613157","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=613157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}