Jaylen Brown and the Celtics took a huge lead over a tired and short-handed Magic team on Sunday and then held on as an unexpected bench mob made a game of it in the fourth quarter, claiming a 138-129 victory.
Here are the takeaways.
Jaylen Brown put the game to bed
We’ll get into exactly what happened down the stretch shortly (spoiler: it was weird), but Brown continued his All-NBA-quality season with yet another monstrous performance — 35 points on 14-for-26 shooting including a pair of 3-pointers (both of them important), four rebounds, eight assists and just one turnover.