BOSTON — The TD Garden crowd held its collective breath as Derrick White’s three-point shot with 9:57 remaining bounced straight into the air. The ball hovered near shot-clock height, bounced inside the rim and rolled through the net as Boston Celtics fans let out one of their loudest cheers of the night.
The basket that gave the Celtics a 21-point lead in an eventual 126-105 rout of a shorthanded Lakers squad playing without Luka Doncic and LeBron James.
Austin Reaves tried to carry the Lakers with 36 points and eight of the team’s 15 assists, but he also had four turnovers.