Philadelphia (AP) — the Boston Celtics still possess the Philadelphia 76ers autonomously from anyone who sits on the court.

Gordon Hayward scored 26 points, in that go-ahead 3-pointer number from 1: 50, and Boston beat Philadelphia 112-109 on Tuesday night. Al Horford was 23 and Jason Tatum scored 20 and caught 10 rebounds in order to assist the Celtics continued his rule over the "Sixers".

Playing without star point guard Kyrie Irving, who on Saturday night went crazy right knee, "Celtics" beat "Sixers" in the third meeting in order in this season subsequently victory over them in 5 games in the semifinals of the Eastern conference last season.

"Against a fairly high-quality competitor was tremendous, especially on the roadway without Kiri, he was huge," said Hayward.

Joel Embiid had 23 points and 14 rebounds, and Jimmy Butler scored 22 for Philadelphia.

3 Hayward out of the corner put Boston up to 105-103 and Marcus Smart added a free throw. The sixth had a chance to equalize when Jimmy Butler came out on the line 3 free throws, but he missed two. Subsequently a turnaround, Embiid dimmed the ball with less than a minute left. After that, smart shot by Ben Simmons for the dunk in order to extend the lead to 108-104 with the remaining 24 seconds. Butler arranged a trial vacant firewood and firewood in order to reduce it to 108-107.

Subsequently, such as Horford drowned 2 free throws, Tobias Harris missed 3, and Embiid returned it in just 2.4 seconds. Butler wasn't able to get the desperation 3 in a timely manner, before than the buzzer sounded when the Sixers threw their own first game of 3 from the purchase phase of Harris in a flurry of moves last week.

” It's a fresh team, " Simmons said. "There are things we will work on, things we need to do better, but it is a good analysis for us to see where we are with this fresh team. But I'm ecstatic about everyone we have and how far we can run.”

The Celtics answered the call in private 1 this game, such as Marcus Morris was called into oscillation the strength of the team later this, they surrendered 28 points leads the clippers with 18 points and the Lakers on their own home court.

"Not bad teams have clunkers, but good teams respond to their faithful efforts and approach," said Celtics coach brad Stevens.

Both teams with a record of 36-21 occupy 4 space in the East.

” We got a sense, Philly plays at the highest level, " said Horford. “We have homes were disappointing costs. I felt, in fact that our backs were pressed against the wall, as a consequence we all had to expire and set the tone, and we created it.”

Subsequently lagging almost a whole 1st half, the Sixers opened the 3rd quarter at 9-0 rush in order to arrest 55-52 lead. JJ red-kittens on a 3-pointer the top of the run. A number of mines through Simmons stirred up a lot, having traveled to Tatum and throwing down thunderous jam fair. But Tatum responded on the other end, turning around and leaning on Embiid Simmons.

Not the slightest interference
The NBA said, in fact, that Los Angeles Lakers President magic Johnson didn't abide by virtually any League rules when he said about likely work with Simmons in the offseason. The investigation was initiated subsequently, such as Sunday showed, exactly what Simmons wanted to meet with Johnson to talk about the art of being selected for guard. Johnson in public praised Simmons on Sunday. Sixers GM Elton Brand said on the first day of the week, in fact that he had already said Simmons, in fact that will not allow this.

Tip-ins
Celtics: upgraded to 14-13 on the roadway. ... Horford was 6 to 23 because of the arc in the direction of the last 10 games, before that arrange 3 out of 5. ... Morris 17 points.

76ers: fell to 23-7 dwellings. ... The ambient was 9 out of 22, in that amount of 2 out of 8 out of the 3-point spectrum. ... Harris was 0 for 6 beyond the arc.

Farther
Celtics: the owner of the "Detroit pistons" on Wednesday evening.

76ers: visit the new-york Knicks on Wednesday evening.