{"id":696911,"date":"2026-04-04T00:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696911\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:50:32","slug":"celtics-lead-bucks-in-second-quarter-nbc-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696911\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics lead Bucks in second quarter \u2013 NBC Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to Know<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/stream\/?pid=12014007\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/stream\/?pid=12014007\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tune into NBC Sports Boston<\/a> at 7 p.m. ET for Celtics Pregame Live. Stay with us after the final buzzer for Celtics Postgame Live.The Celtics (51-25) are 2.5 games ahead of the Knicks for second place in the Eastern Conference.The C&#8217;s are 2-1 versus the Bucks this season.A win would give the Celtics an East-leading 26 road victories. Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo won&#8217;t play due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics close out their four-game road trip Friday night against the Milwaukee Bucks. It&#8217;s the fourth and final meeting between these teams this season, and if the Celtics win they will take the season series 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks will be shorthanded for this matchup. Giannis Antetokounmpo (knee), Kevin Porter Jr. (knee), and Bobby Portis Jr. (wrist) are all out due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of Nikola Vucevic, there is no one on Boston&#8217;s injury report.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics were firing on all cylinders in Wednesday&#8217;s win over the Miami Heat, including an astonishing 53-point first quarter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/live-updates-miami-heat-highlights-score\/779436\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/live-updates-miami-heat-highlights-score\/779436\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">in a 147-129 victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Celtics be able to keep their hot shooting alive versus the Bucks? Follow our live blog below for analysis, video highlights and more: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowTune into NBC Sports Boston at 7 p.m. ET for Celtics Pregame Live. Stay with us&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,75,103,78,77,102,121,3871,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-696911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-bucks","11":"tag-jaylen-brown","12":"tag-jayson-tatum","13":"tag-milwaukee","14":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","15":"tag-milwaukeebucks","16":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116343696635554137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696911","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=696911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}