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Boston Celtics‘ Jayson Tatum tries to beat Milwaukee Bucks‘ Pat Connaughton during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
MILWAUKEE – Jayson Tatum had 31 points, 12 rebounds and six assists and the Boston Celtics rallied in the second half to beat the Milwaukee Bucks 113-107 on Sunday afternoon.
Tatum put the Celtics ahead for good by making two free throws with 5:51 left as Boston erased a nine-point halftime deficit.
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Giannis Antetokounmpo scored a season-high 43 points for the Bucks, who have lost eight of nine. Antetokounmpo also had 13 rebounds and five assists.
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– Boston Celtics (@celtics) November 10, 2024
Payton Pritchard added 18, Jrue Vacation and Derrick White each had 15 and Jaylen Brown scored 14 for the Celtics. Brown returned after missing four games with a hip injury.
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Bobby Portis scored 15 for Milwaukee.
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Takeaway meals
Celtics: Pritchard, who scored 28 points in a 119-108 win over the Bucks on Oct. 28, kept Boston in the game by scoring 17 in the first half. Tatum took charge from there with 23 points in the second half.
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Bucks: Milwaukee took a 16-2 lead in the first two and a half minutes of the game, led by at least eight points throughout the first half and went into halftime with a 69-58 lead after its highest-scoring half . the season. But the Bucks scored just 15 points in the third, their lowest total in any quarter this season, and couldn’t recover.
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Key moment
The Celtics opened the third quarter with a 12-0 run that culminated with a three-pointer by Al Horford. The Bucks would respond (the second half featured eight ties and seven lead changes), but Boston responded to every Milwaukee rally the rest of the way.
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Key Statistics
Milwaukee’s Damian Lillard scored 14 points but was 1 of 8 from 3-point range. He is 1 of 12 from beyond the arc in his last two games.
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The Celtics host the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday, the same day the Bucks host the Toronto Raptors.
