MIAMI (AP) \u2014 The Boston Celtics had a first quarter like none other in their storied history.<\/p>\n
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
Boston’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
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
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
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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 The Boston Celtics had a first quarter like none other in their storied history. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,87396,684,144,78,295,189,3881,6,29499,29496,687,29494,29497,29498,29495,73086,2080],"class_list":{"0":"post-693031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-celtics-53-points-first-quarter","10":"tag-charlotte","11":"tag-heat","12":"tag-jaylen-brown","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-miami-heat","15":"tag-miamiheat","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","18":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","19":"tag-portland","20":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","21":"tag-product-32001-ap-online-basketball-news","22":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","23":"tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","24":"tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","25":"tag-sam-hauser"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116332588312870275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693031","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=693031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}