{"id":692962,"date":"2026-04-02T00:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692962\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:57:21","slug":"celtics-score-53-points-in-1st-quarter-at-miami-setting-club-record-for-opening-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692962\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics score 53 points in 1st quarter at Miami, setting club record for opening period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By TIM REYNOLDS<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"text byline--ap text--small text--normal text--primary\">Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 1, 2026 at 8:37 PM<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/7V4M4WS6KEINJHDV4TOMPQY5GA.jpg\"  width=\"4471\" height=\"2981\"\/>Celtics Heat Basketball Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla, left talks with forward Jayson Tatum (0) during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo\/Lynne Sladky) (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) (Lynne Sladky\/AP) <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4K4YJ5IM6OLVUDIQIR3BISS3SA.jpg\"  width=\"6022\" height=\"4015\"\/>Celtics Heat Basketball Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown (7) goes tot he basket as Miami Heat guard Pelle Larsson, left, and center Bam Adebayo, right, defend during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo\/Lynne Sladky) (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) (Lynne Sladky\/AP) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI (AP) \u2014 The Boston Celtics had a first quarter like none other in their storied history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Celtics scored 53 points \u2014 their biggest-scoring first quarter ever \u2014 in the opening 12 minutes of their game against the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Boston&#8217;s barrage is tied for the second-highest-scoring first quarter in NBA regular-season history. Golden State had a 55-point opening quarter at Portland on April 9, 2023, and Miami had a 53-point opening quarter against Charlotte on Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was the second-most points Boston has scored in a quarter; the Celtics had 54 in the fourth period of a game against the San Diego Clippers on Feb. 25, 1970. And it was the most points Miami ever allowed in any quarter; the Heat gave up 50 in the fourth quarter of a game at Seattle on Jan. 5, 1990.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Boston made 11 3-pointers in the opening quarter, with Sam Hauser going 5 for 5 from beyond the arc while playing all 12 minutes. Jaylen Brown had 20 points by himself in the quarter \u2014 the ninth 20-point quarter of his career, including playoffs \u2014 and Hauser finished with 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Boston led 53-33 at the end of the quarter, after shooting 20 for 28 from the field and 11 for 15 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By TIM REYNOLDS Associated Press Associated Press Published:\u00a0April 1, 2026 at 8:37 PM Celtics Heat Basketball Boston Celtics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,144,295,189,3881,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-692962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-heat","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-heat","12":"tag-miamiheat","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116332400364647969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692962","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=692962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}