{"id":707937,"date":"2026-04-11T05:25:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707937\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:25:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:25:38","slug":"celtics-blast-pelicans-144-118-crescent-city-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707937\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics blast Pelicans, 144-118 \u2013 Crescent City Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><br \/>\n                    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pf-button-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775885138_743_printfriendly-pdf-button-nobg-md.png\" alt=\"Print Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\" style=\"width: 124px;height: 30px;\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New Orleans Pelicans fell to the Boston Celtics 144-118 on Friday night at TD Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Boston dominated from the start, jumping out to a 44-25 lead after the first quarter and extending it to 82-51 by halftime. <\/p>\n<p>The Celtics tied an NBA\/franchise record with 29 three-pointers made, led by Sam Hauser\u2019s game-high 24 points (including 8 threes). Jaylen Brown added 23 points in just 29 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Boston (55-26) clinched the Eastern Conference\u2019s No. 2 see with the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans struggled to keep pace but rookie guard Jeremiah Fears had a strong showing in the loss, leading New Orleans with 36 points (on 13-of-29 shooting) and adding 6 assists. This came on the heels of his franchise rookie-record 40-point game just days earlier against the Utah Jazz, continuing his impressive late-season surge as a first-year player.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans (26-55) closes out the season Sunday at Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Pelicans fell to the Boston Celtics 144-118 on Friday night at TD Garden. Boston dominated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,6,478,470,4073,4072,675],"class_list":{"0":"post-707937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanspelicans","14":"tag-pelicans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116384416327147494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707937","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=707937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}