Celtics 96-79 Nets (21 Nov, 2002) Box Score

New Jersey Nets

8-4, 2-3 away

	1	2	3	4	T
NJ	21	16	14	28	79
BOS	23	21	29	23	96

Boston Celtics

7-4, 4-2 home

New Jersey Nets

starters
Kenyon MartinK. Martin
Richard JeffersonR. Jefferson
Dikembe MutomboD. Mutombo
Jason KiddJ. Kidd
Kerry KittlesK. Kittles
bench
Brian ScalabrineB. Scalabrine
Rodney RogersR. Rogers
Aaron WilliamsA. Williams
Jason CollinsJ. Collins
Anthony JohnsonA. Johnson
Lucious HarrisL. Harris
Tamar SlayT. Slay
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
33	4-14	1-1	1-3	0	4	4	1	1	1	1	4	0	10
37	6-16	1-1	3-6	2	3	5	5	3	3	2	2	0	16
22	1-7	0-0	0-3	8	5	13	0	1	2	2	0	0	2
35	7-16	0-2	5-7	2	4	6	6	1	1	7	2	0	19
35	3-6	0-0	1-2	0	4	4	2	2	0	2	2	0	7
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
2	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
24	4-8	2-4	0-0	2	6	8	4	2	1	2	3	0	10
21	2-8	0-0	5-5	2	2	4	0	0	1	0	3	0	9
5	0-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	2-7	0-2	0-0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	4
2	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	30-87	4-11	15-26	16	30	46	21	10	9	16	19		79
	34.5%	36.4%	57.7%

Boston Celtics

starters
Antoine WalkerA. Walker
Eric WilliamsE. Williams
Paul PierceP. Pierce
Tony BattieT. Battie
Tony DelkT. Delk
bench
Vin BakerV. Baker
Walter McCartyW. McCarty
Ruben WolkowyskiR. Wolkowyski
Bruno SundovB. Sundov
Shammond WilliamsS. Williams
J.R. BremerJ.R. Bremer
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
41	5-19	2-7	4-6	1	6	7	7	4	2	4	3	0	16
33	2-7	0-3	1-2	3	4	7	1	2	0	3	0	0	5
33	7-21	2-4	2-7	4	9	13	6	0	0	3	4	0	18
25	3-6	0-0	2-2	5	3	8	0	1	4	2	5	0	8
41	7-12	6-7	1-1	1	6	7	3	2	0	2	3	0	21
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
22	1-3	0-0	0-2	0	4	4	2	0	0	1	3	0	2
10	1-2	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	1-1	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
32	8-9	3-3	2-3	0	9	9	2	2	0	3	3	0	21
1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	35-80	14-25	12-23	15	42	57	21	11	6	18	22		96
	43.8%	56.0%	52.2%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

BOS leads 1-0

Nets
79
Celtics
96

Game 1

21/11

Celtics
81
Nets
117

Game 2

25/12

Celtics
75
Nets
90

Game 3

14/3

Nets
87
Celtics
74

Game 4

19/3

TD Garden

12:00 AM, 21 November 2002

Boston, MA

Attendance: 16,777

Referees:
Bernie Fryer
George Toliver
Marc Davis

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Boston	15	3	.833	-	W6
New York	10	7	.588	4.5	W1
Brooklyn	8	10	.444	7	W2
Toronto	4	14	.222	11	L2
Philadelphia	3	13	.188	11	L1

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New Jersey Nets

Boston Celtics

Regular Season Series

BOS leads 1-0

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