Nets 117-81 Celtics (25 Dec, 2002) Box Score

Boston Celtics

18-10, 7-5 away

	1	2	3	4	T
BOS	17	23	30	11	81
NJ	28	35	32	22	117

New Jersey Nets

20-9, 16-1 home

117

Boston Celtics

starters
A. Walker
E. Williams
P. Pierce
T. Battie
T. Delk
bench
V. Baker
W. McCarty
R. Wolkowyski
B. Sundov
S. Williams
J.R. Bremer
K. Brown
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
37	5-18	1-4	10-12	2	4	6	3	0	0	1	2	0	21
21	1-3	0-0	2-2	1	0	1	1	2	0	1	3	0	4
39	7-20	3-6	10-12	2	4	6	1	1	0	3	2	0	27
23	2-6	0-0	3-4	3	1	4	1	0	2	4	5	0	7
28	2-6	2-5	0-0	0	4	4	1	1	0	1	2	0	6
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
11	1-1	0-0	4-6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	6
21	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	4	4	3	0	0	3	5	0	0
7	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
8	1-4	0-2	0-0	1	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	2
26	2-5	0-2	0-0	0	4	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	4
6	0-2	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	2-4	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	4
	23-71	6-21	29-36	9	23	32	11	6	3	18	24		81
	32.4%	28.6%	80.6%

New Jersey Nets

starters
K. Martin
R. Jefferson
J. Collins
J. Kidd
L. Harris
bench
B. Scalabrine
R. Rogers
A. Williams
A. Johnson
B. Armstrong
T. Slay
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
29	7-11	0-1	2-3	5	8	13	2	1	1	2	4	0	16
32	6-11	0-0	10-11	0	8	8	1	2	2	2	4	0	22
31	2-8	0-0	6-7	1	3	4	0	2	0	0	4	0	10
32	7-11	2-3	0-0	0	3	3	11	3	0	3	3	0	16
30	7-12	1-3	2-2	1	3	4	6	0	0	0	2	0	17
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
6	1-3	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	2
23	5-11	0-5	3-6	0	5	5	4	1	0	1	4	0	13
17	4-4	0-0	1-1	0	3	3	1	0	0	1	4	0	9
28	4-10	0-1	0-0	0	2	2	5	0	0	1	2	0	8
6	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	2
6	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
	45-83	3-13	24-30	8	38	46	31	13	3	11	28		117
	54.2%	23.1%	80.0%

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

Regular Season Series

Series tied 1-1

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

IZOD Center

11:00 PM, 25 December 2002

East Rutherford, NJ

Attendance: 20,049

Referees:
Bob Delaney
Jess Kersey
Tim Donaghy

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Boston	7	2	.778	-	L1
Brooklyn	4	4	.500	2.5	W1
New York	3	4	.429	3	L2
Toronto	2	7	.222	5	L2
Philadelphia	1	6	.143	5	L4

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