No playing around with this recap. Boston certainly didn’t play around, not for a second. They came out and dominated from the start, turning a Western Conference foe into pulp. The already-lowly Sacramento Kings were the Celtics’ victim tonight; Boston delivered a 128-75 beating, and there’s simply no use in dancing around it. That’s what happened, those are the facts, and yes, that feels so good to write with absolute certainty behind it.
A few things happened tonight that either felt or were new to this endlessly frustrating team: in the first quarter, Jaylen Brown passed Larry Bird for sixth on the franchise’s all-time three-pointers made list (he hit no. 650 within two minutes and no. 651 seconds later; Larry Legend had 649). Jayson Tatum followed up Sunday’s 51-point performance by looking like he might just do it again tonight (he’d settle for 36). A member of the 2021-22 Boston Celtics smiled.
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