Boston Celtics @ Brooklyn Nets

East 1st Round - Game 2 • BKN leads series 2-0

36-36, 15-21 Away

108

36-36, 15-21 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Celtics BOS	26	21	35	26	108
Nets BKN	40	31	38	21	130

Brooklyn NetsNetsBKN

48-24, 28-8 Home

130

48-24, 28-8 Home

Boston Celtics

starters
Jayson TatumJ. Tatum#0
Tristan ThompsonT. Thompson#13
Kemba WalkerK. Walker#8
Evan FournierE. Fournier#94
Marcus SmartM. Smart#36
bench
Jabari ParkerJ. Parker#20
Semi OjeleyeS. Ojeleye#37
Grant WilliamsG. Williams#12
Luke KornetL. Kornet#40
Robert Williams IIIR. Williams III#44
Carsen EdwardsC. Edwards#4
Romeo LangfordR. Langford#45
Payton PritchardP. Pritchard#11
Tremont WatersT. Waters#51
Aaron NesmithA. Nesmith#26
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
21	9	1	3	4	1	2	2	3	3-12	25.0	1-3	33.3	2-2	100.0	2	-28
25	15	8	3	11	0	0	1	2	7-9	77.8	0-0	0.0	1-2	50.0	3	-23
30	17	0	3	3	7	0	0	0	5-11	45.5	0-3	0.0	7-8	87.5	1	-18
27	16	1	0	1	0	2	0	3	5-9	55.6	4-5	80.0	2-2	100.0	4	-11
32	19	1	2	3	6	2	0	1	6-13	46.2	5-8	62.5	2-4	50.0	2	-18
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
6	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	1-2	50.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	1	-5
7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0-2	0.0	0-2	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	0
12	5	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	2-4	50.0	1-1	100.0	0-0	0.0	0	+5
4	3	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	1-1	100.0	0-0	0.0	1-2	50.0	0	0
17	8	3	3	6	1	0	0	1	4-6	66.7	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	5	+1
4	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2-3	66.7	1-2	50.0	0-0	0.0	0	0
18	4	1	1	2	1	1	0	0	2-7	28.6	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	-3
13	2	0	3	3	4	1	0	1	0-5	0.0	0-3	0.0	2-2	100.0	1	-4
4	3	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	1-3	33.3	0-1	0.0	1-1	100.0	0	0
19	0	0	3	3	0	1	0	1	0-5	0.0	0-5	0.0	0-0	0.0	1	-6
	108	15	28	43	23	10	4	15	39-92	42.4	12-34	35.3	18-23	78.3	20

Brooklyn Nets

starters
Blake GriffinB. Griffin#2
Kevin DurantK. Durant#7
Joe HarrisJ. Harris#12
James HardenJ. Harden#13
Kyrie IrvingK. Irving#11
bench
Jeff GreenJ. Green#8
Alize JohnsonA. Johnson#24
Reggie PerryR. Perry#0
Nic ClaxtonN. Claxton#33
Mike JamesM. James#55
Timothe Luwawu-CabarrotT. Luwawu-Cabarrot#9
Tyler JohnsonT. Johnson#10
Landry ShametL. Shamet#20
Bruce BrownB. Brown#1
DeAndre JordanD. Jordan#6
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
20	11	1	2	3	4	0	0	0	4-6	66.7	0-1	0.0	3-4	75.0	2	+18
29	26	1	7	8	5	1	4	4	8-12	66.7	2-2	100.0	8-8	100.0	1	+19
29	25	1	3	4	3	2	1	1	9-14	64.3	7-10	70.0	0-0	0.0	3	+29
27	20	2	3	5	7	1	0	2	6-12	50.0	4-8	50.0	4-4	100.0	3	+31
28	15	2	4	6	6	0	1	3	6-12	50.0	1-3	33.3	2-2	100.0	2	+19
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
12	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3-5	60.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	+8
4	2	0	3	3	0	1	0	0	1-1	100.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	0
4	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	1-3	33.3	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	1	0
18	0	1	2	3	2	1	1	0	0-2	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	2	+4
8	4	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2-7	28.6	0-2	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	-4
4	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	1	0
8	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1-4	25.0	1-4	25.0	0-0	0.0	0	-3
25	10	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	4-7	57.1	2-5	40.0	0-0	0.0	5	0
22	6	2	6	8	3	0	0	2	1-2	50.0	0-1	0.0	4-4	100.0	3	-11
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	130	12	34	46	31	7	7	14	46-88	52.3	17-38	44.7	21-22	95.5	23

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Celtics
93
Nets
104

Game 1

5/22

Celtics
108
Nets
130

Game 2

5/25

Nets
119
Celtics
125

Game 3

5/28

Nets
141
Celtics
126

Game 4

5/30

Celtics
109
Nets
123

Game 5

6/1

Barclays Center

7:30 PM, May 25, 2021Coverage: TNT

Brooklyn, NY

Attendance: 14,774

Referees:
James Capers
Ken Mauer
Sean Corbin

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
New York	6	3	.667	-	W4
Philadelphia	6	4	.600	0.5	L1
Toronto	5	5	.500	1.5	L1
Boston	5	6	.455	2	W1
Brooklyn	1	9	.100	5.5	L2

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