On April 6, 2024, Beijing time, the 60-16 Celtics hosted the 44-32 Kings, the Kings were back-to-back, they lost to the Knicks yesterday, and today they faced the league's No. 1 Celtics The Kings are currently ranked eighth in the West, only 0.5 wins ahead of the Lakers, and if they lose today, then the Lakers' record will tie the Kings. On the Kings side, Monk and Huerter are absent, starters: Fox + Ellis + Barnes + Murray + Sabonis, Celtics White and Brown are absent, starters: Holiday + Hauser + Tatum + Horford + Pozin.
In the first quarter of the game, the two sides felt cold in the first 5 minutes, the King only scored 4 points, the Celtics only scored 3 points, and then the two sides found their state, Sabonis and Barnes scored, Pozin, Tatum, Tillman responded, the Green Army 10-8, Sabonis 2+1, Tatum, Pozin, Pritchard, Tillman, Kornet teamed up to respond, the Green Army led by 11 points, Edwards, Fox scored, Mikhailiuk, Tatum responded, and the Celtics led 27-15 in the first quarter.
In the second quarter of the game, Holiday , Pritchard and Cornet scored, Fox chased the points, the difference was 16 points, Horford and Pritchard scored, Murray and Fox hit three points in a row, the difference was 12 points, Pozin and Pritchard scored, Barnes, Fox, Murray and Sabonis chased the points strongly, the difference was 4 points, and the Celtics led 54-50 at halftime. Fox scored 20 points in the quarter, setting a personal second-quarter scoring record this season, scoring 21 points and three boards on 8-of-14 shooting in the half, and Pozin scoring 12 points and six boards on 5-of-7 shooting in the half.
In the third quarter of the game, the Kings started into a scoring drought, only Sabonis scored 2 points, the Green Army Hauser, Horford, Holiday and Pozin teamed up to score, and the difference came to 14 points, Fox, Mitchell, Sabonis played 10-0, and the difference was chased to 4 points, Tatum expanded the difference to 8 points, Lyles and Sabonis scored, Tatum and Pozin responded, the difference was still 8 points, Vychenkov scored three points, Pritchard, Pozin responded, with an 11-point deficit, Fox made a layup, and Tatum responded with a three-pointer to give the Celtics an 84-72 lead in the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter of the game, Cornet, Pritchard, Mikhailiuk scored, Murray, Vychenkov chased points, the difference was 13 points, Tillman, Pritchard, Brissett expanded the difference to 19 points, and then the Celtics fell into a scoring drought, Fox scored in a row, Sabonis, and Barnes also scored, and the Kings played a wave of 21-1 scoring climax to exceed 1 point, with 27 seconds left in the game, Tillman shot 1 point, and with 7 seconds left in the game, Fox missed the shot, Murray missed two consecutive rebounds, and at the end of the game, the Celtics narrowly defeated the Kings 101-100 and rejected the opponent's big comeback.
Pozin had 20 points and 11 boards on 7-of-10 shooting, Tatum had 17 points, 6 boards and 5 assists on 5-of-15 shooting, Pritchard had 21 points, 1 board and 3 assists, Holiday had 10 points, 4 boards and 7 assists, and Horford had 8 points and 6 boards.
Fox had 40 points, four rebounds and two assists on 16-of-29 shooting, Sabonis had 16 points, 16 rebounds and six assists on 6-of-13 shooting, Murray had 10 points, 10 rebounds and four assists, Barnes had 10 points and five boards, and Mitchell had seven points, six rebounds and five assists.
The Kings are still ranked eighth in the West after the loss, but the record has been tied by the Lakers, and the King's follow-up schedule is difficult, and the Lakers' hopes of overtaking the Kings have greatly increased, and the Western Conference playoff pattern has changed dramatically.