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\t\t\t\t\t\tBOSTON \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The Boston Celtics fell to the Philadelphia 76ers 111-97 on Tuesday night in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series. <\/p>\n

Boston entered the game after a 123-91 win in Game 1 on Sunday, the franchise’s largest margin of victory in a postseason opener. <\/p>\n

Game 2 was much closer early, with Philadelphia keeping pressure on Boston throughout. <\/p>\n

The 76ers tied the game at 37-37 in the second quarter on a corner 3-pointer by Andre Drummond. <\/p>\n

The Celtics answered when Jayson Tatum picked off a pass for a dunk, but Boston trailed 62-54 at halftime. <\/p>\n

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Philadelphia maintained control into the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n

A jumper by Jaylen Brown cut the 76ers’ lead to 91-89, but Philadelphia responded with 3-pointers from Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe to extend the lead. Maxey and Edgecombe combined for 59 points. <\/p>\n

The Celtics ended the game shooting 13 for 50 (27%). <\/p>\n

“We just got to watch the film and make adjustments,” Brown said. “They’ve got some good basketball players over there, I thought we got to do a better job on Edgecombe.” <\/p>\n

Brown led Boston with 36 points. <\/p>\n

The series now shifts to Philadelphia for Game 3 on Friday at Xfinity Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n

Celtics Round 1 Playoff Schedule:Game 1: Philadelphia at Boston | Sunday April 19, 1 p.m. (WIN)Game 2: Philadelphia at Boston | Tuesday April 21, 7 p.m. (LOSS)Game 3: Boston at Philadelphia | Friday April 24, 7 p.m.Game 4: Boston at Philadelphia | Sunday April 26, 7 p.m.Game 5: Philadelphia at Boston* | Tuesday April 28 (if needed)Game 6: Boston at Philadelphia* | Thursday April 30 (if needed)Game 7: Philadelphia at Boston* | Saturday May 2 (if needed) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014 The Boston Celtics fell to the Philadelphia 76ers 111-97 on Tuesday night in Game 2 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[36800,679,3845,7,45,75,3798,46,56524,2184,1744,7994,142,2024,25802,2740,6942,6,678,207,34,89249,66,6304,396,3152,1564,946],"class_list":{"0":"post-715694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-76er","9":"tag-76ers","10":"tag-andre-drummond","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-boston","13":"tag-boston-celtics","14":"tag-bostonceltics","15":"tag-celtics","16":"tag-final-minute","17":"tag-first-round","18":"tag-first-round-playoff-series","19":"tag-franchise-history","20":"tag-game","21":"tag-game-2","22":"tag-large-margin","23":"tag-massachusetts","24":"tag-momentum","25":"tag-nba","26":"tag-philadelphia","27":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","28":"tag-playoffs","29":"tag-postseason-opener","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-td-garden","32":"tag-team","33":"tag-tuesday-night","34":"tag-victory","35":"tag-win"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116447273512032820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715694","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=715694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}