Lakers 101 vs 110 Celtics summary, stats, scores and highlights | NBA
The Boston Celtics snapped the Lakers eight game win streak and brought LA back down to Earth in Luka's return to Boston. Jayson Tatum was the MVP, and he was quick to give credit to all of his other teammates in the post game interview with Lisa Salters.
The Lakers cut the lead to just 4 after trailing by 20 at the top of the 4th quarter, but Brown came through with the biggest shot of the night. He hit the step back three over Luka and that was basically it from Boston.
LeBron and Luka tried to take the game over in the 4th quarter, and almost made the come back but James went to the locker room shortly after this play and his night ended early after scoring 22, grabbing 14 rebounds and 9 assists.
There was no stopping Jayson Tatum who was the star that shined the brightest in a galactic battle from Boston. They C's went into the final quarter with a 20 point lead, but the Lakers had a little fight in them still.
The Celtics came out on fire in the third quarter and built up their largest lead of the game with stretching the lead out to 22 at one point. This Jaylen Brown 3 capped a 13-0 run as Brown chipped in 31 of his own.
The Celtics trailed for most of the first half, but they went on a run before the break and that stretched into the second half. Tatum had 22 at half, and finished the second quarter in style with this jam to beat the buzzer.
The two old guys were going at it in the Garden. Between them there are 40 years of NBA experience and neither one looked a step slow on Saturday night in the Garden. Horford took LeBron to the rack, kept Luka contained at times on defense and ended the night with 14, 9 and 4.
Tatum went for 35 in the Celtics previous game against the Sixers, and carried that into Saturday night with a quick start. He had 13 points in the first quarter to set the tone for the Celtics and he would carry them all night.
This was the biggest game Luka has played as a Laker, and while he scored 34 points and had 8 rebounds he never seemed to find his groove. He had a couple turnovers in the first half, but played much better in the second half. It was his first game in Boston since losing Game 5 of the Finals, and tonight he goes home with another bitter memory in Beantown.
The Lakers and Celtics wrote the newest chapter of a storied rivalry on Saturday night, and it was the home team that took care of business in Boston as the C's snapped the Lakers eight game win streak. Jayson Tatum shined brightest with 40 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists in one of the biggest wins of Boston's regular season.
The game got started off with both teams lighting it up from downtown and that set us up for an entertaining night. It was close through the first two quarters, and but the Celtics took control after halftime.
IT'S ALL OVER!!!! THE CELTICS SNAP THE LAKERS 8 GAME WIN STREAK AS LEBRON WENT TO THE LOCKER ROOM EARLY WITH A GROIN STRAIN!
Vincent with the final bucket of the night and the Celtics are going to win it here from the Garden!!!
Tatum to the line after the foul on Vanderbilt and he hits both FTs.
Luka down the lane and he lays it up and in.
Tatum sent to the line by Finney-Smith and he hits both FTs.
Brown slices through the lane and lays it up and in off the glass.
Doncic with the floater in the lane and he's got 32 on the night.
LEBRON JAMES HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH A GROIN STRAIN!
Tatum comes out of the timeout and drills a three ball to make it a double digit lead again!
Timeout Lakers with 3:04 to go in the 4th quarter.
LeBron James is not on the floor right now. He went to the locker room last timeout and hasn't been back.
Brown steps back and drills the three ball over Luka from the top of the key!!
Luka drills another three ball and he banks it in from the wing!!!
White is fouled by Vanderbilt on the three point attempt and White hits all three FTs.
Doncic to the line after the foul on Horford and he hits both FTs.
5:00 to go.
Knecht wide open on the wing and he strings the three ball!
Doncic on the baseline and he hits he floater from outside the paint.
Brown pulls up in the paint and hits the short J.
Brown to the rack and he lays it up and in over Luka.
Timeout Lakers with 6:44 to go in the 4th quarter.
LeBron corkscrews in the lane and lays it up and in over Brown.
Reaves with a spot up three ball and he hits it from the wing!
Doncic knocks down a triple and this game isn't over just yet.
James pulls up from the mid rang and he hits another mid range jumper.
Prichard up top to Kornet who slams it home on the alley oop.
LeBron from the elbow and he hits the mid range jumper.
Reaves hits a foul after a take foul on Tatum.
Reaves with the triple try on the step back!
Tatum to the line and he hits one of two FTs after the foul on LeBron, but Kornet was there to tip in the missed FT.
Vanderbilt to the bucket with the lay up and the foul! FT is no good.
Tatum ends the quarter with a three ball from the wing and the C's are pulling away from the Lakers heading into this fourth quarter.
Tatum blows past a defender and lays it up and in.
Knecht down the paint and he gets the lay up to go on the left side.
James slashes to the rack and finger rolls it home.
Horford to the line after the foul on Luka and he hits both FTs.
Luka with the baseline drive and lay up over Brown.
Timeout BOS with 4:11 to go in the 3rd quarter.
Doncic steps back and drills the three ball from the top of the key.
Horford on the turn around over Reaves and he hits the jump hook. Redick got T'd up and he goes Tatum goes to the line where he hits the one FT.
Doncic with the up and under and he finger rolls it home.
Holiday down the lane and he gets the floater to fall.
Horford finds Brown in the corner and he drills the three ball!
Brown to the line after the foul on Vincent and he makes one of two FTs.
White swipes LeBron and takes it for a lay up on the other end.
Horford to the line after the foul on Vincent and he hist one of two FTs.
Timeout Lakers with 8:36 left in the third quarter.
Horford with the lay up after Tatum found him slashing to the bucket.
Doncic fouls Tatum from behind the three point line and he goes to the line where he hits two of three.
White down the lane and he lays it up off the Tatum dish.
Luka fouled by Tatum and he hits both FTs.
Brown with the pull up off the dribble off the dish from White.
Tatum picks up where he left off with a lay up.
WE ARE BACK UNDERWAY FROM BOSTON!!!
Horford is usually the oldest player on the court, but not when he's. playing LeBron and the Lakers. He went right into the body of LeBron and spun off the all time leading scorer. LeBron responded with a transition bucket on the other end. He's got 14 and Doncic has 11 points.
The hustle plays are what wins you games like this, and Reaves was all hustle on this play. Look at him take a shot, get the rebound and find LeBron for the and one,
Tatum was cooking in the fist half. After scoring 35 points last game he had 13 in the first quarter and has 22 at half.
Luka hasn't been up to his best so far. Last time he was in this building was Game 5 of the NBA Finals. He had a tough series back in the spring and tonight he's 3/8 from the field with 11 points and three turnovers.
This game got off to wild start. The Lakers took control of the game early on thanks to a great start from downtown. Jaylen Brown and Tatum got things going after a slow first few minutes and this game has been pretty even since then.
Tatum soaring down the lane and he slams it home with two hands!!!
Tatum pulls up from long range and drills the three ball from the top of the key!!!
James with the short jumper and he gets it to drop from the FT line.
Brown on the break and he flies to the iron and slams it home.
Pritchard jacks up the three ball and that goes from the corner!!
LeBron pulls up from the mid range and sinks it.
Brown's lay up counted as they take away the offensive foul, but the Technical foul still stands, and Reaves hits that.
An offensive foul was called on Brown who got a piece of Luka on his way up, but that call will b challenged by Boston with 3:03 to go in the 2nd quarter.
LeBron pulls up and sticks the jumper.
Horford into the paint, spins off LeBron and lays it up and in.
Luka running the break and he euro steps to the bucket and lays it up and in.
Brown running the break and goes right into the defense for the lay up and he gets the roll.
Doncic to the line after the foul on Brown and he hits both FTs.
Vanderbilt with the offensive rebound and he hits Doncic in the corner for three!
LeBron sends Tatum to the line and he hits both FTs.
Kornet follows up the missed three from Tatum and he tips it in.
Reaves got his own rebound, slipped it out to James from his backside and LeBron hit the off balance leaner and gets the foul! We are heading to a timeout here from Boston with 8:31 to go in the half.
Tatum off the dribble and he hits the fader from the FT line.
Reaves answers back with a three ball from long range, and the threes continue into this second quarter.
Holiday in the corner and he drills it off the Tatum kick out.
Knecht to the bucket and he lays it up and in.
That was a first quarter full of three pointes. The Lakers got up early, but Tatum and Brown came battling back and it's all square here after 12 minutes.
WE ARE AT THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER HERE FROM TD GARDEN.
Tatum answers back with a deep three ball, and that's going to bring us to the end of the first quarter!!!
Goodwin from the top of the key and he's got a couple long triples already tonight.
Tatum with a step back and he drills the three ball and he's got 10 on the night.
James slices down the lane and lays it up and in.
LeBron running the break, slips it to Knecht who lays it up and in on the baseline.
Luka lost it again and this time it's Brown with the bucket on the other end.
Luka lost it at one end and that leads to a wide open transition slam on the other end.
Goodwin wide open in the corner and he drills the three ball!
Timeout here from Boston with 3:50 to go in the first quarter.
Horford down the land and he slams it home and gets a nice chuck of Luka on the follow through of the dunk.
Brown to the line after the foul on LeBron and he hits one of two FTs.
White answers back and the threes are flowing here from Boston!!
Reaves drills a three ball from the top of the key!!
Horford tries his luck from downtown, and he joins the three point party!
Holiday pulls up from the mid range and sinks it.
Luka puts up a three ball and it's raining threes from Boston!!
Brown jacks it from the wing and drops the long ball.
Finney-Smith with his second three ball of the night and he's got 8 quick points!
Offensive rebound falls for White and he find Tatum wide open for three!
LeBron finds Finney-Smith down low and he lays it up and in to put the Lakers up 8.
Timeout here from the Garden with 7:13 to go in the 1st quarter!
Tatum with the spin to the bucket and he slams it home!
James had his first attempt blocked by White but got it back and dunked it on the second attempt.
LeBron with the fade away on the baseline for his first points of the night.
Brown slices down the lane and lays it up and in off the glass with the left had.
Doncic to the line after the foul on Tatum and he hits one of two FTs.
Brown with the catch and shoot on the baseline for the C's first bucket.
LeBron looks down low to a wide open Vanderbilt for the slam down low.
Doncic looks up court and finds Reaves streaking to the bucket for a lay up.
Finney-Smith drills a three ball to get us started from Boston!!!
WE ARE UNDERWAY FROM BOSTON!!!
Late scratch
So there will be no Kristaps Porzingis who is out tonight with illness.
Long bombs from L&L
Lebron and Luka are locked in already here from the Garden. They both showed their exceptional range in front of the home crowd here in Boston. The C's are the three point specialists but LeBron and Luka are coming to town looking the kings off their throne.
Lakers starters
These are your new look Lakers. Luka and LeBron have become one of the most dangerous duos in the league almost over night and tonight might be their biggest test yet. It's Luka, LeBron, Austin Reeves, Dorian Finney-Smith and Jarred Vanderbilt.
Celtics starters
It's one of the best starting fives in the NBA. The defending NBA champs are bringing out the big guns to welcome the Los Angeles Lakers. Tatum and Brown are the headliners but White, Holiday and Horford are going to play key roles in tonight's game.
C's injury report
Tonight the Celtics should be playing with all hands on deck. Boston will have Jaylen Brown back after he missed last game along with a handful of other players. Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday are both listed as questionable but both are expected to play in tonight's massive matchup.
Know your role
Last game it was all about Jayson Tatum, but Derrick White and Payton Pritchard made Celtics history a couple games ago against the Portland Trail Blazers. The duo, who usually are the role players Boston, took over and in a game with no Jayson Tatum, Prozingis or Jure Holiday. White scored 41 points, and Pritchard dropped 43 off the bench to become the first Celtics duo to score forty points in the same game. Think of all the legendary names that have played in Boston. Never had that been done before, and when it did happen, it wasn’t Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum. It was White and Pritchard etching their names in the history books.
LeBron dust up in NY
It’s not all sunshine and lollipops for the Lakers lately. While things are going great for the team, LeBron has started to take target at the media. He talked about why no one is going want to be the face of the league anymore after a being constantly ripped despite still being one of the best players in the league over two decades since he came into the league. Now people aren’t just taking aim at LeBron, they are doing so at his son Bronny. Stephen A. Smith is one of the ones who has been most critical of LeBron and Bronny’s situation. LeBron saw Stephen A. At Madison Square Garden and was ready to square off with the talk show pundit. He got in his face and gave Stephen A. a stern warning about talking about Bronny.
NBA Standings
Taking a look at the standings in the Eastern and Western Conference we see both of these two teams near the top spot in the table. The Celtics are sitting comfortably in 2nd place in the East behind the Cleveland Cavaliers. They have a five game cushion over the Knicks, but trail the Cavaliers by 8 games. It’s likely that Boston will be heading into the postseason with that 2 seed, which is where the Lakers stand right now in the West, but things are a little tighter in their conference. They trail the first placed Thunder by 11 games, but are tied with the Nuggets in the standings. The Grizzlies and Rockets aren’t too far behind them, sitting two and three games behind the Lakers and Nuggets. The final stretch in the West is going to be loaded with drama, but tonight we focus on an interconfertnce matchup between two legendary franchises.
Star watch: Celtics
The Celtics are the most complete team in the league. They have showed that for the last couple of seasons not just the last year when they won the title. Last game they didn’t have more of the players that make this team the most complete side in the NBA, so that left the brunt of the scoring burden on Jayson Tatum. Tatum had no problem stepping up to the plate and carrying the team to victory. He had 35 points on 23 field goals and is averaging 26.9 points, 8.8 rebounds an 5.8 assists. Being on the Celtics, where the workload is so often evenly distributed, Tatum is going to find it tough to be in the MVP conversation, but he is the best player on the best “team” in the league.
Star watch: Lakers
The Luka Doncic trade was shocking, it was stunning, it was unforeseen, but what’s happened since the Doncic trade hasn’t been stunning, unforeseen or shocking. Luka and LeBron have merged effortlessly and the Lakers are rolling. They have won eight straight games and shot up the standings and are looking like one of the most dangerous teams in the Western Conference. After a couple of games that took him a while to get accustomed to his surroundings, Luka has been rolling. He has scored 30+ points in four of the Lakes last seven games, and has 27 totals assists in the last two games. He isn’t just scoring. He’s doing a little bit of everything for LA, and that has taken the Lakers from a good team to a title contender.
Last game: Celtics
The Celtics won their third straight game against a battered and bruised Philadelphia 76ers squad, but Boston went into the game with a couple of star names on the sidelines with injury. Jaylen Brown, Jrue Holiday, Al Horford and Kristaps Porzingis missed the game and that meant it was all on the shoulders of Jayson Tatum and he carried them in a wire-to-wire win. Tatum had 35 points and 7 rebounds as the bench chipped in 59 points and Boston cruised to a 123-105 win.
Last game: Lakers
The Lakers needed more than 48 minutes to topple the New York Knicks who had a commanding lead in the fourth quarter, but let it slip as LA forced the game to OT. Luka Doncic and LeBron James were sensational combining for 62 points and completing the double digit comeback in the final minutes. Gabe Vincent hit a couple of huge threes to help extend the game and once in OT it was Doncic putting the Lakers out in front with a couple of tough shots over KAT. Jalen Brunson was a one man wrecking crew for the Knicks but his twisted ankle that he suffered late in the game allowed the Lakers to take command and keep command. LeBron had 31, 12 and 8 assists while Luka put up 32, 7 and 12 assists in the win.
We are live from TD Garden
Hello everyone and welcome to the Garden where the Boston Celtics are back home for the fifth of a seven game home stand, and looking to stop the streaking Lakers who come into tonight on an eight game roll. These two teams are at the top of the standings in their respective conferences and this could potentially be a preview of a title series in a few months time. Before we worry about the playoffs, we have a month to go in the season and these two teams won’t only be looking to stay at the top of the table, but also keep healthy as both teams gear up for a deep postseason run. That starts tonight in the Garden as two powerhouses and two of the top teams match up in a must see game from Boston.
Lakers vs. Celtics live
Two of the most historic franchises in the NBA meet again, but this one has a different flavor about it. For the first time since the trade that rocked the NBA, Luka Doncic will be playing the Boston Celtics in a purple and gold Lakers jersey. It’s a new chapter in a storied rivalry. Lakers vs. Celtics from TD Garden and AS English will be with you all night providing live coverage, stats, highlights and analysis of tonight’s spotlight game from Boston.