The Celtics defeated the Trail Blazers comfortably on Sunday, as their Stay Ready Group pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 124-107 victory.
Here are the takeaways.
1. Jaylen Brown led all Celtics scorers with 26 points and tallied his 10,000th point as a member of the Celtics. He became the 15th Celtic to reach the 10,000 mark, and (almost certainly not intentionally, but notably nonetheless) he did it with a swooping layup with his left hand.
“It definitely does [mean a lot],” Brown said afterward. “Don’t want to skip over that. It’s been a great journey, even though the journey is still going, just take the moments out to just appreciate all the work, the hard work, the effort that has gone into even getting to this point.