Celtics beat Suns 120-112 as Jaylen Brown scores 41 points

BOSTON (AP) — Jaylen Brown had 18 of his 41 factors within the fourth quarter and Jayson Tatum scored 21 in his fifth sport again from an Achilles tendon damage to assist the Boston Celtics beat the Phoenix Suns 120-112 on Monday night time.

Devin Booker scored 40 for the Suns, who’ve misplaced back-to-back video games after snapping a four-game profitable streak. Jalen Inexperienced scored 21 for Phoenix.

Derrick White, who was introduced with February’s Jap Convention’s Defensive Participant of the Month Award earlier than the sport, had 21 factors for Boston, and Payton Pritchard scored 19.

Boston trailed by three factors, 111-108, with lower than 4 minutes left earlier than Brown stole the ball from Booker and fed it to Tatum for a layup. After a Phoenix miss, Brown rebounded Tatum’s miss to present Boston the lead after which added two free throws and a brief jumper to finish an 8-0 Celtics run.

Boston scored 12 of the sport’s final 13 factors to drag away.

Phoenix misplaced to Toronto on Friday after giving up a 23-5 run within the fourth quarter to blow a 10-point lead.

Tatum missed Boston’s first 62 video games whereas recovering from a torn Achilles suffered in final 12 months’s playoffs. He returned March 6, performed three video games, sat one out and now has performed greater than 32 minutes in back-to-back video games.

Suns: Go to Minnesota on Tuesday.

Celtics: Host Golden State on Wednesday.