Boston Celtics @ Los Angeles Lakers

13-12, 7-8 Away

102

13-12, 7-8 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Celtics BOS	33	22	20	27	102
Lakers LAL	31	29	31	26	117

Los Angeles LakersLakersLAL

13-12, 9-7 Home

117

13-12, 9-7 Home

Boston Celtics

starters
Jayson TatumJ. Tatum#0
Al HorfordA. Horford#42
Robert Williams IIIR. Williams III#44
Marcus SmartM. Smart#36
Dennis SchroderD. Schroder#71
bench
Juancho HernangomezJ. Hernangomez#41
Grant WilliamsG. Williams#12
Enes FreedomE. Freedom#13
Josh RichardsonJ. Richardson#8
Romeo LangfordR. Langford#9
Payton PritchardP. Pritchard#11
Aaron NesmithA. Nesmith#26
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
34	34	2	6	8	3	1	1	5	13-22	59.1	5-7	71.4	3-5	60.0	2	-8
30	7	1	7	8	2	2	0	0	3-9	33.3	1-5	20.0	0-0	0.0	0	+4
25	13	3	1	4	1	1	1	1	5-7	71.4	0-0	0.0	3-4	75.0	1	-20
33	6	1	3	4	6	3	0	3	2-7	28.6	0-2	0.0	2-3	66.7	3	-6
32	10	0	1	1	5	1	0	1	1-6	16.7	0-3	0.0	8-10	80.0	2	-8
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
5	0	0	3	3	1	0	0	0	0-3	0.0	0-3	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	+4
14	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	0-2	0.0	0-1	0.0	1-2	50.0	2	-21
9	0	0	3	3	1	0	1	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	-5
16	11	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4-9	44.4	1-4	25.0	2-4	50.0	2	-13
17	5	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2-3	66.7	0-0	0.0	1-1	100.0	1	-7
12	6	0	1	1	5	0	0	1	2-6	33.3	2-5	40.0	0-0	0.0	0	+1
14	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4-8	50.0	1-3	33.3	0-0	0.0	3	+4
	102	7	27	34	27	8	4	13	36-82	43.9	10-33	30.3	20-29	69.0	16

Los Angeles Lakers

starters
LeBron JamesL. James#6
Anthony DavisA. Davis#3
Talen Horton-TuckerT. Horton-Tucker#5
Avery BradleyA. Bradley#20
Russell WestbrookR. Westbrook#0
bench
Carmelo AnthonyC. Anthony#7
Kent BazemoreK. Bazemore#9
Dwight HowardD. Howard#39
Wayne EllingtonW. Ellington#2
Malik MonkM. Monk#11
Austin ReavesA. Reaves#15
DeAndre JordanD. Jordan#10
Rajon RondoR. Rondo#4
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
36	30	2	2	4	5	0	0	3	13-19	68.4	2-5	40.0	2-2	100.0	2	+18
35	17	4	12	16	3	2	2	3	7-13	53.8	0-0	0.0	3-4	75.0	3	+17
35	12	0	6	6	4	2	1	3	5-14	35.7	0-5	0.0	2-3	66.7	3	+16
24	5	1	2	3	0	0	0	1	2-6	33.3	1-2	50.0	0-0	0.0	1	+4
36	24	1	2	3	11	1	0	4	9-16	56.3	1-4	25.0	5-6	83.3	2	+11
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
21	9	3	5	8	0	1	0	0	4-11	36.4	0-4	0.0	1-2	50.0	3	+2
3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	-3
13	4	2	6	8	0	0	1	0	2-4	50.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	1	-2
14	6	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2-4	50.0	2-4	50.0	0-0	0.0	3	+3
20	10	0	2	2	2	1	0	0	4-6	66.7	2-3	66.7	0-0	0.0	3	+12
3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	-3
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	117	13	38	51	25	7	4	14	48-93	51.6	8-27	29.6	13-17	76.5	21

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

Regular Season Series

Series tied 1-1

Lakers
108
Celtics
130

Game 1

11/19

Celtics
102
Lakers
117

Game 2

12/7

crypto.com Arena

10:00 PM, December 7, 2021Coverage: TNT

Los Angeles, CA

Attendance: 18,997

Referees:
Curtis Blair
Scott Foster
J.T. Orr

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

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
LA Lakers	8	3	.727	-	W1
Golden State	6	5	.545	2	W1
Phoenix	6	5	.545	2	W3
Sacramento	3	7	.300	4.5	L2
LA Clippers	3	7	.300	4.5	L5

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