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Miami Heat at Boston Celtics

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9-10, 5-6 Away
Final
89 - 108

17-4, 8-2 Home

Brown scores 29, Pritchard adds 25 bench points to lead Celtics past Heat 108-89

Bam slams it down all over Luke Kornet

Derrick White added 19 points as the defending NBA champions won for the eighth time in nine games.

Jaime Jaquez Jr. had 19 points and 10 rebounds and Tyler Herro scored 19 for Miami. Herro was 2 for 10 from 3-point range, and the Heat shot 23% from beyond the arc and 36% from the field.

Both teams were without key players for the second night of a back-to-back after losing on Sunday.

Miami played without Jimmy Butler, who has missed five of the first 19 games with a knee injury. The Celtics were without Jrue Holiday, Al Horford and Kristaps Porzingis.

Miami scored the first seven points and then went cold while the Celtics ran off 17 of the next 19 points to take the lead. Boston made it a double-digit lead early in the second quarter and went up by 20 in the third.

Takeaways Heat: Keshad Johnson made his NBA debut and scored two points in seven minutes.

Celtics: Have not lost back-to-back games all season.

Key moment Pritchard, who hit two half-court buzzer-beaters in the NBA Finals, beat the third-quarter buzzer on Monday night when he dribbled through the lane and sidestepped defender Pelle Larsson and laid in a left-hander off the backboard to give Boston a 22-point lead — their biggest in the game to that point.

Key stat Pritchard became the first NBA player this season to score 20 or more bench points in four straight games. He's the first Celtic to do it since Isaiah Thomas in 2015.

Up next Both teams are home on Wednesday night, with the Celtics hosting Detroit and the Heat hosting the Lakers.

Regular Season Series

BOS leads series 1-0

Matchup Prediction

Celtics: 87.5%
Heat: 12.5%
*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Recent Plays

4th 0.0 End of Game 89 - 108
4th 0.0 End of the 4th Quarter 89 - 108
4th 7.1 shot clock turnover 89 - 108
4th 32.0 Pelle Larsson makes 24-foot three point shot (Dru Smith assists) 89 - 108
4th 37.2 Pelle Larsson defensive rebound 86 - 108

Statistics

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31-87 FG 39-89
35.6 Field Goal % 43.8
8-35 3PT 19-55
22.9 Three Point % 34.5
19-23 FT 11-13
82.6 Free Throw % 84.6
44 Rebounds 54
11 Offensive Rebounds 14
33 Defensive Rebounds 40
24 Assists 25
6 Steals 5
1 Blocks 9
10 Turnovers 14
0 Team Turnovers 3
10 Total Turnovers 17
0 Technical Fouls 0
0 Total Technical Fouls 0
0 Flagrant Fouls 0
6 Points Conceded Off Turnovers 18
22 Fast Break Points 5
38 Points in Paint 40
11 Fouls 20
7 Largest Lead 27

Game Information

TD Garden

Location: Boston, MA
Attendance: 19,156 · Capacity:

2024-25 Southeast Standings

TEAM W L PCT GB STRK
Atlanta 32 35 .478 - L1
Orlando 31 37 .456 1.5 L1
Miami 29 38 .433 3 L7
Charlotte 17 49 .258 14.5 W1
Washington 15 51 .227 16.5 W2

2024-25 Atlantic Standings

TEAM W L PCT GB STRK
Boston 49 19 .721 - W2
New York 42 24 .636 6 L1
Toronto 24 43 .358 24.5 W3
Philadelphia 22 44 .333 26 L3
Brooklyn 22 45 .328 26.5 L3
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