{"id":669991,"date":"2026-03-21T03:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/669991\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:24:17","slug":"jaylen-brown-has-30-points-as-celtics-rally-to-defeat-grizzlies-117-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/669991\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown has 30 points as Celtics rally to defeat Grizzlies 117-112"},"content":{"rendered":"

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Jaylen Brown<\/a> scored 30 points, Luka Garza<\/a> added a season-high 22 points and the Boston Celtics<\/a> used a fourth-quarter rally to defeat the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> 117-112 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Payton Pritchard<\/a> added 19 points for the Celtics, who have won four straight. The win kept Boston in second place in the East, 1 1\/2 games ahead of the New York Knicks<\/a> who held on for a 93-92 victory over Brooklyn earlier Friday night.<\/p>\n

Tyler Burton<\/a>, who signed a 10-day contract with Memphis on March 12, led the Grizzlies with 23 points, a career-high. Ty Jerome<\/a> added 16 points and seven assists. Javon Small<\/a> and DeJon Jarreau<\/a> finished with 13 points each.<\/p>\n

Memphis was able to stay close through three quarters as Boston struggled shooting, converting only 40% of its shots entering the fourth. Turnovers also plagued the Celtics. <\/p>\n

Memphis held a 103-102 lead with 5:33 left, but Boston went on a 10-point rally to end the Grizzlies hopes.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies, who snapped an eight-game losing streak with a 125-118 victory over Denver on Wednesday night, are limping their way through the season’s final weeks. Memphis was again short-handed with nine players on the injury list, including several players already undergoing season-ending surgeries.<\/p>\n

In contrast, the main absent Celtic was Nikola Vucevic<\/a> who missed his seventh straight game with a fractured right ring finger.<\/p>\n

Both teams struggled from outside the arc through much of the first half, which kept the score low and the Grizzlies close. Until the 4-minute mark of the second quarter, both teams had converted only a trio of 3-pointers each. Meanwhile, Jayson Tatum<\/a> missed his first eight shots.<\/p>\n

Brown’s 16 points helped Boston carry a 55-54 lead into the half.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Celtics: Host the Timberwolves<\/a> on Sunday<\/p>\n

Grizzlies: At Charlotte on Saturday<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Jaylen Brown scored 30 points, Luka Garza added a season-high 22 points and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,75,55559,79016,3499,78,77,17915,177,1407,6,12,3853,405,1201,29788],"class_list":["post-669991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nba-draft","tag-basketball","tag-boston-celtics","tag-dejon-jarreau","tag-event_recap","tag-javon-small","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-luka-garza","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-nikola-vucevic","tag-payton-pritchard","tag-ty-jerome","tag-tyler-burton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116265029811015652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669991","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=669991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}