Two days after having 5 stitches faraway from a finger on his taking pictures hand, Jaylen Brown recorded sport highs of 29 factors and 12 rebounds to guide the Boston Celtics to a 112-99 victory over the visiting Atlanta Hawks in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference first-round playoff sequence Saturday.
Brown, an Atlanta native, missed Boston’s last two regular-season video games after reducing himself whereas choosing up a bit of glass in his residence.
Jayson Tatum added 25 factors and 11 rebounds for the second-seeded Celtics, who acquired a 24-point efficiency from Derrick White.
The seventh-seeded Hawks had been 5 of 29 from 3-point vary, and had been outrebounded 58-45.
Dejounte Murray led the Hawks with 24 factors and eight rebounds. Trae Young, Atlanta’s main scorer in the course of the common season, completed with 16 factors.
The Hawks trimmed a 30-point halftime deficit to 12, 96-84, with 9:33 to play, however the Celtics responded with a 6-0 run to push their result in 18. Atlanta, which trailed 94-75 after three quarters, missed 11 of its subsequent 12 photographs after slicing Boston’s result in 12 factors.
Atlanta used an 8-0 run to drag inside 12 factors with 3:16 to go, however by no means received any nearer.
Game 2 might be performed in Boston on Tuesday earlier than the best-of-seven sequence shifts to Atlanta on Friday.
Boston led 29-19 after one quarter and prolonged its lead within the second. A Tatum 3-pointer capped a 20-3 run that put the Celtics up 52-27 with 6:10 remaining within the quarter, and Boston had its largest lead of the half after Tatum made a 3-pointer that gave the Celtics a 74-44 benefit with 2.2 seconds left within the second.
Boston shot 60 p.c from the sphere within the first half, when it made 9 of its 16 3-point makes an attempt. Atlanta shot 33.3 p.c from the ground and was 1 of 16 from behind the arc.
