MIAMI — The Boston Celtics had a primary quarter like none different of their storied historical past Wednesday evening, scoring 53 issues within the opening 12 mins of a 147-129 victory over the Miami Warmth.
It was once the second-highest-scoring first quarter in NBA regular-season historical past. The Golden State Warriors had a 55-point opening quarter at Portland on April 9, 2023, and Miami had a 53-point opening quarter in opposition to Charlotte on Nov. 7.
“Attending to the paint, attending to the basket and completing. I feel that was once the catalyst,” Celtics superstar Jaylen Brown mentioned.
Boston’s 147 issues tied its moment maximum in a street recreation in franchise historical past. It was once additionally essentially the most issues the Warmth have allowed at house.
“I assumed we finished beautiful smartly,” Celtics trainer Joe Mazzulla mentioned. “There is occasions whilst you execute smartly and also you get excellent shot after excellent shot. It simply more or less occurs. Generally if you find yourself in moments like that and also you begin to really feel it, you’re taking deficient pictures. We did not do this. We saved combating for a excellent glance, the next-best glance, and I assumed that more or less saved the momentum going a bit bit.”
Boston led 53-33 on the finish of the quarter, after taking pictures 20-for-28 from the sector and 11-for-15 from 3-point vary.
The 53 first-quarter issues was once the second-highest overall the Celtics have had in 1 / 4; that they had 54 within the fourth quarter of a recreation in opposition to the San Diego Clippers on Feb. 25, 1970. And it was once essentially the most issues allowed by means of Miami in any quarter; the Warmth gave up 50 within the fourth quarter of a recreation at Seattle on Jan. 5, 1990.
Sam Hauser had 17 issues, going 5-for-5 from past the arc, whilst enjoying all 12 mins of the primary quarter. Brown had 20 issues by means of himself within the quarter — the 9th 20-point quarter of his profession, together with playoffs.
“That is going to sound loopy, however that is other than the opposite video games that we are speaking about,” Warmth trainer Erik Spoelstra mentioned. “Our guys had been locked in and competing. There was once a phenomenal point of shotmaking on [Boston’s] phase to begin the sport.”
Brown ended up with 43 issues, and Jayson Tatum had a 28-point, 18-rebound, 11-assist triple-double — his first of the season, after lacking a lot of it whilst convalescing from the Achilles tendon tear he suffered in remaining season’s playoffs.
Tatum now has 83 issues, 35 rebounds and 24 assists in his previous 3 video games. The remaining Celtics participant to place up the ones numbers in a three-game span was once Larry Hen in April 1990.
“It was once simply high-level shotmaking on each ends,” Tatum mentioned.
Knowledge from ESPN Analysis and The Related Press was once used on this record.