THE NBA playoffs Continue Wednesday with three games 2, including the Celtics facing the Magic without Jayson Tatum and the Warriors trying to take a 2-0 lead against the Houston Rockets.
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Here are the results and main dishes of Wednesday matches:
Celtics 109, Magic 100
The Celtics Tatum reigned for the match 2 hours before the blowAnd their emergency plan was a big night for Jaylen Brown.
While Tatum looked from the bench in a golf shirt and a wrist, his long-standing co-star conducted Boston to another flight victory to mount 2-0 in their series against The Magic. Brown finished the match with 36 points on 12 shots out of 19, 10 rebounds and five assists.
It was not the most dominant night of the Celtics, but it certainly showed that they can push the teams without a tatum in the first missed eliminatory match in his career.
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Match 3 is scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m. He in Orlando (ESPN).
Kristaps Porzingis comes out, comes back immediately after a bloody bowl to the head
Goga Bitadze made Porzingis bleed for his own blood, to say it slightly.
A wild elbow of the Magic Center in the third quarter left the great man of the Celtics with a massive and bloody cut on his forehead. Porzingis immediately ran for the locker room and soon returned with a huge bandage on his head and a smile.
The room was examined and considered a blatant 1 on Bitadze. Porzingis had to pull the free throws or miss the rest of the match, so he rushed to try them and was immediately underlying afterwards.
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Porzingis returned to the locker room after that, and returned to the fourth with a smaller bandage, in Big Cheers of the crowd. He finished the match with 20 points, 10 rebounds and two blocks.
Take Kentavious Caldwell-Pope on the list of Boston Christmas cards
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope magic wing Entered the court in a choir of hoots from the crowd of the TD garden after His fault in match 1 eliminated Tatum for Wednesday. He did not bother to try to tackle the masses in the next 48 minutes.
Caldwell-Pope Antonié more the crowd at the start of the game And later triggered a confrontation when he came across Al Horford in transition. Jaylen Brown had a few words for him the next day.
Of course, KCP did not do much either to tackle magic fans. He finished with three points on a 1 out of 9 shot.
A call had a big impact on the game
We simply check, when a player reaches an opponent with enough weight for the opponent to lean at the waist, then get the ball and launch a shot with one of his tangled arms with the opponent, is this a fault on this player or the opponent?
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In the case of Porzingis and Wendell Carter, it was a fault on Carter, aka the player who was obviously going. We don't know what officials have seen here and Nice either.
This fault found itself quite important. It was the third in Carter's match, when the magic was only behind two just before half-time. Carter was back to open the second half, but recorded only two rebounds and a turnover in the third quarter.
The Celtics extended their two -digit advance during this district.
