Celtics star makes franchise history in 76ers win

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Celtics star makes franchise history in 76ers win

Brian Robb · MassLive

Mon, Mar 2, 2026 ·

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BOSTON — Jaylen Brown joined some elite company on Sunday night when he became just the 12th player in Celtics history to score 13,000 points with the franchise. The All-Star hit the mark in the fourth quarter of Boston's 114-98 win over the 76ers at TD Garden. Brown finished 27 points, eight rebounds and eight assists in the victory, while joining names John Havlicek, Paul Pierce and teammate Jayson Tatum in the Celtics scoring record books by crossing the 13,000 point mark..

After the game, Joe Mazzulla credited his star forward for helping Boston's offense get on track after a miserable shooting start after he hit another offensive milestone.

"As long as we execute and we take care of the ball, we're going to get good looks. I think it started with Jaylen's balance," Mazzulla said of Boston's strong night. "I thought he really picked his spots really well in looking to attack and looking to distribute, constantly creating 2-on-1s. I think his trust in Neemi also gave Neemi a good game, and his ability to make plays in the seam, and then playing off of Derrick and Sam and Baylor and those guys. So you just have to execute even when you're not making shots, and you've got to keep guys out of transition. So I thought he did a good job of that. I thought Jaylen and D-White did a good job managing the offense."

Brown has emerged as a MVP candidate this season while posting career-highs in points, rebounds and assists in his 10th NBA season with Boston. The Celtics improved to the No. 1 offense in the NBA after their win Sunday night as the team used a 11-0 fourth-quarter run to put the Sixers away.

"I thought we had some good ball movement and trying to play with some pace, but I just think that our offense just has a good flow to it right now where it's going from side to side and not sticking too much," Brown said. "And then when we need to take advantage of a matchup, we will, but it's not like we're looking for that every time down. So just continuing to have some rhythm and flow to our offense. A lot of our guys are playing well right now. So from my standpoint, no need to force anything. Just continue to just create an advantage and just play from there and trust the game after that."

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The Celtics have now won 11 of their last 13 games after Sunday's win with Brown's historic campaign putting them in position to make some noise in the Eastern Conference as the home stretch of the regular season arrives.

"I think our identity definitely feels like it's formulated, especially early in the season, we were kind of figuring things out, trying to find an identity with this new group of guys that were playing large minutes," Brown said. "We started to get going and a couple of guys are no longer on the team. So then we get Vucevic , so now our identity kind of shifts a little bit again. And I think we've done a good job of just being unselfish and playing Celtic basketball. And I think we're starting to figure it out. Like, tonight was a team win. Everybody did their part and that's how, when you're doing that, it makes you a lot more dangerous. So we're playing some good basketball right now and we've just gotta keep it up."

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