Watch the Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics warm up before tipoff as Jayson Tatum’s kid, Deuce Tatum, made an appearance with Steph Curry and Jaylen Brown.

Watch the Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics warm up before tipoff as Jayson Tatum’s kid, Deuce Tatum, made an appearance with Steph Curry and Jaylen Brown.

Boston, Massachusetts (AP) With 29 points from Jaylen Brown and 27 from Jayson Tatum—who turned 26 on Sunday—the NBA-best Boston Celtics defeated the fatigued Golden State Warriors 140-88 on Sunday, posting their third-largest winning margin in team history.

The Celtics, who have won three games in a row by 50 points or more, established a league record with Payton Pritchard’s 19 points. Their winning run now stands at 11 games. Boston had a record-breaking lead of 44 points at the half and 51 points early in the third quarter before head coach Joe Mazzulla used his backups for the remainder of the game.

“It feels fantastic, but humility is always present,” Brown remarked. We don’t consider the game to be simple. We handled business and took care of it; that’s how we respect the game; we didn’t just show there and mess about. Although we have a great deal of respect for the Golden State Warriors, we believe that now is our moment.

With a season-low four points for Golden State after missing the second half of the game due to a foot ailment, Stephen Curry’s performance is the lowest for Golden State since March 16, 2022, when he scored three points in 16 minutes against Boston. Curry missed all nine of his 3-point attempts on Sunday, including back-to-back airballs, and finished only 2 of 13 from the field.

They appear to be very confident in their identities and personalities based on the way they’ve been playing, according to Curry. “Acknowledge them. It was one of those perfect storms where we had a terrible day and they took it out on us. Tonight, they came out and whooped us right away.

The Warriors suffered their fourth-worst loss in team history. They had won eleven out of thirteen, including the first three games of their tour up the East Coast, which had three games in four days and a challenging drive to Toronto that involved spending hours sitting on a tarmac overnight.

In a team-high 33 minutes, Lester Quinones scored 17 points to lead Golden State. Moses Moody (11 points) was the only player for the Warriors to score in double figures, and none of the starters played longer than twenty minutes.

Draymond Green remarked, “We lost.” “Just get rid of it and move on.”

The two biggest landslide victories for Boston were 133-77 away to Chicago on December 8, 2018, and 128-75 against visiting Sacramento on January 25, 2022.

Due to an injured left quad, Kristaps Porzingis, a forward with the Celtics, was unable to play.

After the first quarter ended with the score knotted at 21, the Celtics went on a 58–13 run that put them ahead by 35 points at the end of the second quarter.

In the first quarter, Green played some unusual defense by letting Brown alone and fouling him by at least five feet multiple times. Brown’s three consecutive three-pointers in a forty-second span set off the run.

“We told Jaylen to shoot 20, 30 3s if they’re going to keep doing that,” Pritchard said.

With five of his eight three-pointers made throughout the quarter, Brown scored 19 points to give Boston a 44–22 advantage.