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The Celtics didn’t win Monday night against the Utah Jazz because they didn’t deserve to win. A team that looked sharp last week has returned to its wildly inconsistent and erratic ways, with the common thread as it always has been under Joe Mazzulla — poor 3-point shooting.
Kevin Durant scored 26 points in three quarters before resting the fourth, Amen Thompson added 17 points and nine rebounds, and the Houston Rockets beat the Boston Celtics 128-101.
Jaylen Brown scored 32 points, Anfernee Simons added 19 and the Boston Celtics never trailed in a 109-108 win against the Philadelphia 76ers
The Washington Wizards will be striving to end a five-game losing streak when they visit the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night.
The 76ers will be down a pair of rotation players as they face the Celtics at 7 p.m. Friday from Philadelphia. Paul George (left knee surgery) and Jared McCain (right thumb surgery) are both out for Friday’s contest as they have yet to play this season.
Jusuf Nurkic dropped in a putback with 0.6 seconds remaining and the Utah Jazz overcame a double-digit, second-half deficit to beat the Boston Celtics 105-103 on Monday night.
Some Cs fans had grumbled about Boston using a first round pick on the Madrid native despite the little playing time Gonzalez had at his last stop.