The Boston Celtics defeated the Atlanta Hawks 112-99 Saturday afternoon, grabbing a big Game 1 victory to open the first round of the playoffs. From start to finish, the Celtics were decidedly the better team, with a positively dominant showing on both sides of the ball.
Jaylen Brown led the way with 29 points and 12 rebounds, but in reality the entire team in green was dialed in. Boston took a 74-44 lead at halftime, a metric of how particularly lopsided this game really was. This marks head coach Joe Mazzulla’s first postseason win as a head coach in the NBA.
