{"id":647671,"date":"2026-03-08T20:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/647671\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:08:16","slug":"celtics-top-cavaliers-109-98-tatum-scores-20-in-second-game-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/647671\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics top Cavaliers 109-98; Tatum scores 20 in second game back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCLEVELAND \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 109-98 on Sunday at Rocket Arena in a game televised on WMUR-TV. <\/p>\n<p>Jaylen Brown led Boston with 23 points. Jayson Tatum, playing in his second game back after a torn Achilles tendon, contributed 20 points in 27 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wmurapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland led by as many as eight points in the first quarter, but Boston picked up the pace, taking the lead into the second quarter and never looking back. <\/p>\n<p>The Celtics&#8217; defense held the Cavaliers to 13\/45 on three pointers, or 29%.<\/p>\n<p>Boston travels to Texas next for a Tuesday night game against the San Antonio Spurs at Frost Bank Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 The Boston Celtics defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 109-98 on Sunday at Rocket Arena in a game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,75,46,193,1409,78,77,6,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-647671","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-celtics","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-eastern-conference","13":"tag-jaylen-brown","14":"tag-jayson-tatum","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116195368406151506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647671","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=647671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}