{"id":687187,"date":"2026-03-30T02:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/687187\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:14:13","slug":"jayson-tatums-32-points-lift-cs-to-50th-win-nbc-sports-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/687187\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayson Tatum\u2019s 32 points lift C\u2019s to 50th win \u2013 NBC Sports Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to Know<a href=\"http:\/\/swap.fm\/l\/celticstalk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Chris Forsberg will share more postgame reaction on the\u00a0Celtics Talk Podcast.<\/a>The Celtics (50-24) have a 2-game lead over the Knicks for second place in the Eastern Conference.Jayson Tatum scored a season-high 32 points and became the youngest Celtic to reach 14,000 career points.Jaylen Brown (left Achilles tendinitis) and Derrick White (right knee contusion) didn&#8217;t play.The Celtics have won 50-plus games for the fifth straight season.Boston&#8217;s road trip resumes Monday against the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics didn&#8217;t have two of their best players &#8212; Jaylen Brown and Derrick White &#8212; available for Sunday&#8217;s game against the Hornets in Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>But it didn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Jayson Tatum&#8217;s season-high 32 points led an impressive Celtics performance in a 114-99 victory. Payton Pritchard also chipped in 28 points as the starting point guard in place of White.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics have clinched a playoff spot for the 12th consecutive season \u2013 the longest active streak in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The C&#8217;s also have reached the 50-win mark for the fifth straight season. The last time they had a streak that long was the first nine seasons of Larry Bird&#8217;s career in the 1980s. <\/p>\n<p>Check out our Celtics-Hornets live blog below for a full recap:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowChris Forsberg will share more postgame reaction on the\u00a0Celtics Talk Podcast.The Celtics (50-24) have a 2-game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,1243,78,77,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-687187","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-celtics","13":"tag-derrick-white","14":"tag-jaylen-brown","15":"tag-jayson-tatum","16":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116315715409796631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687187","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=687187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}