{"id":714130,"date":"2026-04-19T19:15:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714130\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:15:28","slug":"live-updates-celtics-lead-sixers-in-game-1-at-td-garden-nbc-sports-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714130\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Celtics lead Sixers in Game 1 at TD Garden \u2013 NBC Sports Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8212; The Boston Celtics&#8217; quest for Banner 19 begins Sunday at TD Garden with Game 1 of their first-round series vs. the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n<p>Boston earned the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference with a 56-26 record, while the Philadelphia 76ers clinched the No. 7 seed at 45-37. Philly won its play-in matchup against the Orlando Magic.<\/p>\n<p>The C&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/76ers-playoffs-first-round-rivalries-history\/782213\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/76ers-playoffs-first-round-rivalries-history\/782213\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">have won each of their last six playoff meetings with the 76ers<\/a>. The last time the storied rivals met in the postseason was in the 2023 Eastern Conference semifinals, when Boston triumphed in a thrilling seven-game series.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers will be without star big man Joel Embiid (post-appendectomy surgery recovery) for Game 1. Otherwise, it&#8217;s a clean injury report for both sides. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown will lead the way for a C&#8217;s team that has been dominant (13-3) since Tatum&#8217;s return from his Achilles injury.<\/p>\n<p>Follow our live blog below for score updates, highlights, news, and reaction throughout Game 1:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON &#8212; The Boston Celtics&#8217; quest for Banner 19 begins Sunday at TD Garden with Game 1 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[79709,7,45,75,3798,46,78,77,6,207],"class_list":{"0":"post-714130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-2026-nba-playoffs","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-boston-celtics","12":"tag-bostonceltics","13":"tag-celtics","14":"tag-jaylen-brown","15":"tag-jayson-tatum","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-philadelphia-76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116432976186143122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714130","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=714130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}