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Al Horford’s season-high might’ve given you deja vu

A Jayson Tatum long-range bomb gave the Boston Celtics the 126-123 win over the Toronto Raptors on Saturday night in overtime.

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— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 17, 2024

How did they get to this point?

Well, it was a team effort. Boston had six players score in double figures, including Al Horford, who tallied a season-high 18 points.

Half of them came in the fourth quarter, where Big Al was Boston’s leading scorer.

“You can always count that he’s going to make a play when it’s time to make a play,” head coach Joe Mazzulla said of the 17-year vet’s timely buckets.