The Portland Trail Blazers played a first-half back-and-forth affair with the Boston Celtics, trading single-digit leads until Boston went ahead by 11 at the half. Under the weight of 7,375 (exact number slightly exaggerated) Payton Pritchard and Derrick White threes, the Blazers couldn’t hold up, falling 118-128 to the Celtics in TD Garden.
The game also unfortunately saw Deni Avdija leave the game and not return after re-aggravating the left quad injury that kept him out of most of one recent game and all of another.
Blazer of the Game
Jabari Walker.