Boston Celtics @ Houston Rockets

6-4, 3-1 Away

111

6-4, 3-1 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Celtics BOS	24	31	32	24	111
Rockets HOU	28	27	13	27	95

Houston RocketsRocketsHOU

4-7, 2-5 Home

Boston Celtics

starters
Jae CrowderJ. Crowder#99
Amir JohnsonA. Johnson#90
Jared SullingerJ. Sullinger#7
Isaiah ThomasI. Thomas#4
Marcus SmartM. Smart#36
bench
David LeeD. Lee#42
Jonas JerebkoJ. Jerebko#8
Kelly OlynykK. Olynyk#41
Tyler ZellerT. Zeller#44
Avery BradleyA. Bradley#0
Evan TurnerE. Turner#11
RJ HunterR. Hunter#28
Terry RozierT. Rozier#12
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
28	16	7-10	1-3	1-1	3	0	1	2	0	1	2	2	+24
22	6	3-5	0-0	0-0	6	3	0	3	1	2	4	2	+20
25	9	4-9	1-2	0-0	6	3	0	0	1	4	2	1	+20
24	23	9-12	4-7	1-1	3	6	1	2	0	1	2	0	0
30	4	1-11	0-6	2-4	9	6	5	5	0	1	8	3	+30
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
5	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	-6
14	6	3-4	0-0	0-0	2	2	2	0	0	1	1	3	+7
23	8	3-11	1-6	1-2	6	2	3	1	1	3	3	2	-4
14	9	3-6	0-0	3-4	5	0	2	1	0	1	4	2	-18
20	21	8-14	4-7	1-2	1	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	+18
18	7	2-5	0-2	3-3	5	2	2	0	0	0	5	3	+11
11	0	0-2	0-2	0-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	-9
6	2	1-3	0-1	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	-13
	111	44-93	11-36	12-17	49	27	19	16	3	16	33	22
		47%	31%	71%

Houston Rockets

starters
Terrence JonesT. Jones#6
Trevor ArizaT. Ariza#1
Dwight HowardD. Howard#12
James HardenJ. Harden#13
Ty LawsonT. Lawson#3
bench
Corey BrewerC. Brewer#33
KJ McDanielsK. McDaniels#32
Montrezl HarrellM. Harrell#35
Clint CapelaC. Capela#15
Marcus ThorntonM. Thornton#10
Jason TerryJ. Terry#31
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
28	15	7-14	0-1	1-4	8	4	1	1	0	3	5	2	+6
32	19	7-16	4-10	1-1	9	0	4	3	1	1	8	2	-23
30	5	2-4	0-0	1-2	12	3	2	0	1	4	8	4	-11
30	16	4-10	4-7	4-4	1	3	4	0	0	0	1	4	-27
27	7	3-5	0-1	1-2	2	5	4	1	0	1	1	0	-12
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
24	11	4-14	1-7	2-3	3	2	2	3	0	0	3	2	-2
10	2	1-3	0-0	0-2	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	+9
12	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	1	0
18	5	2-4	0-0	1-4	7	1	0	1	2	4	3	0	-5
12	8	3-8	2-4	0-0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	+3
18	3	1-4	0-2	1-1	1	3	3	0	1	0	1	3	-18
	95	36-85	11-32	12-23	46	23	22	10	6	14	32	20
		42%	34%	52%

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

Matchups

BOS

BOS leads season

1-0

HOU

111

Game 1@ HOU

Final

Game 2@ BOS

Final

102

Game Information

Houston, TX

Referee:Ed Malloy

Referee:Eli Roe

Referee:Brian Forte

Eastern Conference

Atlantic	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Boston	56	26	.683	-	W2
New York	53	29	.646	3	L1
Toronto	46	36	.561	10	W1
Philadelphia	45	37	.549	11	W2
Brooklyn	20	62	.244	36	L3

Western Conference

Southwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
San Antonio	62	20	.756	-	L1
Houston	52	30	.634	10	W1
New Orleans	26	56	.317	36	L2
Dallas	26	56	.317	36	W1
Memphis	25	57	.305	37	L8

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