Celtics use pre-switching to prevent Trae Young from hunting for mismatches wasting an entire shot clock

Celtics square up

Jaylen Brown misses the shot over Paul George then intercepts the outlet pass by Andre Drummond gets the ball back and hits the 3Paul George misses a shot over Pritchard at the other end and Nikola Vucevic hits a 3 over Drummond putting the Celtics up 21 once again Sixers timeout

The Boston Celtics bench absolutely erupts in the 1st quarter outscoring the entire Sixers team and ending with a buzzer-beating shot by Payton Pritchard

Jayson Tatum pulls up for the off-balance jumper over Jonathan Kuminga and swishes it to beat the shot clock

Celtics have a 6 point lead with 25s remaining after Tatum's clutch 3

Joel Embiid with the behind the back dime to Kelly Oubre Jr for the cutting dunk Oubre then blocks Jaylen Brown at the other end and Paul George with the behind the back pass to VJ Edgecombe for the fastbreak dunk with replaysCeltics timeout