Jaylen Brown has 30 points, Celtics rally to beat Grizzlies

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Jaylen Brown scored 30 factors, Luka Garza added a season-high 22 factors and the Boston Celtics used a fourth-quarter rally to defeat the Memphis Grizzlies 117-112 on Friday evening.

Payton Pritchard added 19 factors for the Celtics, who’ve gained 4 straight. The win saved Boston in second place within the East, 1 1/2 video games forward of the New York Knicks who held on for a 93-92 victory over Brooklyn earlier Friday evening.

Tyler Burton, who signed a 10-day contract with Memphis on March 12, led the Grizzlies with 23 factors, a career-high. Ty Jerome added 16 factors and 7 assists. Javon Small and DeJon Jarreau completed with 13 factors every.

Memphis was capable of keep shut by three quarters as Boston struggled capturing, changing solely 40% of its photographs coming into the fourth. Turnovers additionally plagued the Celtics.

Memphis held a 103-102 lead with 5:33 left, however Boston went on a 10-point rally to finish the Grizzlies’ hopes.

The Grizzlies, who snapped an eight-game dropping streak with a 125-118 victory over Denver on Wednesday evening, are limping their means by the season’s ultimate weeks. Memphis was once more short-handed with 9 gamers on the damage record, together with a number of gamers already present process season-ending surgical procedures.

In distinction, the principle absent Celtic was Nikola Vucevic, who missed his seventh straight recreation with a fractured proper ring finger.

Each groups struggled from outdoors the arc by a lot of the primary half, which saved the rating low and the Grizzlies shut. Till the 4-minute mark of the second quarter, each groups had transformed solely a trio of 3-pointers every. In the meantime, Jayson Tatum missed his first eight photographs.

Brown’s 16 factors helped Boston carry a 55-54 lead into the half.

Celtics: Host the Timberwolves on Sunday

Grizzlies: At Charlotte on Saturday