The Boston Celtics returned to action Sunday against the Trail Blazers at the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon. Boston posted yet another win 129-116 in their second game of a 5-game west coast road trip. Jayson Tatum was exceptional once more for the short-handed Celtics.
Former Oregon Duck Payton Pritchard started his first game of the season in place of veteran Jrue Holiday; Al Horford and Sam Hauser also were given the starting nod. It was Pritchard who would score the first points of the game on a Jayson Tatum-assisted triple. Tatum then dribble-drove for a massive one-handed dunk, and then Pritchard converted on a shifty drive for his second score of the game.