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Celtics tie NBA record with 29 3-pointers in win over Knicks
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BOSTON (AP) — The Boston crowd chanted “Another 3!”
The Celtics did their greatest, firing up 13 pictures from 3-point vary in an try to interrupt the NBA document for 3s in a recreation — and lacking all of them. Ultimately, all of the defending champions may do in their 132-109 victory over the New York Knicks on Tuesday evening was tie the document of 29 3s made by Milwaukee in 2020.
“It was nearly like we acquired jinxed or one thing,” stated Jaylen Brown, who scored 23 factors and was 5 of 9 from 3-point vary however tossed up an airball with an opportunity to interrupt the document.
“Once we have been simply enjoying, having enjoyable, enjoying our fashion of basketball, the whole lot was stepping into,” Brown stated. “The group acquired into it, and we began searching them, we couldn’t even hit the intense aspect of the barn.”
Jayson Tatum made 8 of 11 from lengthy distance and Derrick White linked on six because the Celtics made 29 of their first 48 3-point makes an attempt whereas opening a 35-point lead over New York on the evening Boston raised its 18th championship banner to the rafters.
The Celtics made 10 of 17 3-pointers within the first quarter, after they opened a 19-point lead. They added seven 3s within the second quarter and 9 within the third. Al Horford tied the document from the left aspect with about 9 minutes left within the recreation and the Celtics main by 33 Then the defending champions couldn’t discover the ring.
Brown and Xavier Tillman every fired up an airball from past the arc, and the Celtics scored simply three extra occasions the remainder of the way in which — all 2-pointers — with only one basket after the 6:37 mark. Neither workforce scored in any respect within the ultimate 3:43.
Payton Pritchard was the grasp bricklayer, lacking 5 from lengthy vary. Sam Hauser missed three, Tillman missed two and Jordan Walsh missed one. Boston completed 29 of 61 from 3-point vary.
“Once we have been tied, I used to be like ‘We’re one away from the document,’” White stated. “I shouldn’t have stated something. It’s sort of like a no-hitter, huh? I blame myself.”
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