{"id":629347,"date":"2026-02-28T01:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/629347\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:03:20","slug":"celtics-lead-nets-in-first-quarter-nbc-sports-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/629347\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics lead Nets in first quarter \u2013 NBC Sports Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to Know<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/stream\/?pid=12013823\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/stream\/?pid=12013823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tune into NBC Sports Boston<\/a> for Celtics Pregame Live at 7 p.m. ET. After the game, stay with us for Celtics Postgame Live. The Celtics (38-20) are second in the Eastern Conference standings. The Nets (15-43) are tied for the fewest wins in the East and have lost six straight games.The Nets have played the Celtics tough this season. Brooklyn beat Boston in November and lost to the C&#8217;s in double OT in January.Four of the next five games for the Celtics are at home.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/live-updates-highlights-score-nuggets-2\/772965\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/live-updates-highlights-score-nuggets-2\/772965\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">lost a tough game to the Nuggets<\/a> in Denver to close out their Western Conference road trip on Wednesday. Now the C&#8217;s are back at TD Garden looking to bounce back against one of the NBA&#8217;s worst teams.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets are in second-to-last place in the Eastern Conference standings and have lost six straight games. However, they have been a pesky opponent for the C&#8217;s this season. Boston is 2-1 versus Brooklyn and one of those wins required a miracle in double overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Celtics win the season series in the final matchup between these teams in 2026?<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Celtics-Nets live blog below for analysis, video highlights and more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowTune into NBC Sports Boston for Celtics Pregame Live at 7 p.m. ET. After the game,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,247,46,78,2675,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-629347","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-brooklyn-nets","13":"tag-celtics","14":"tag-jaylen-brown","15":"tag-joe-mazzulla","16":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116145567075485430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629347","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=629347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}