{"id":17836,"date":"2022-06-09T10:45:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T05:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=227478"},"modified":"2022-06-09T10:45:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T05:15:52","slug":"nba-finals-celtics-win-game-3-against-warriors-to-go-2-1-up-in-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/nba\/nba-finals-celtics-win-game-3-against-warriors-to-go-2-1-up-in-series\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Finals: Celtics win Game 3 against Warriors to go 2-1 up in series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics takes a commanding victory over the Golden State Warriors by taking them down 116-100 in Game 3 of the 2022 NBA Finals which took place in Boston. By winning this game, the Celtics have retaken the lead of the series and are up 2-1 now against the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics duo of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum put up a performance in which they were in a league of their own. Brown had 27 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists while Tatum had 26 points and 9 assists. and 6 rebounds. Also, the performances of Marcus Smart, who had 24 points and 5 assists and Robert Williams who had 10 rebounds and 4 blocks proved to be crucial for the Boston Celtics in their Game 3 win against the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Stephen Curry leads the Warriors in scoring by having 31 points and a total of 6 three-pointers. Klay Thompson had a solid game by scoring 25 points and 5 three-pointers but all this effort from the Warriors did not pay off. The size of the Celtics squad created a lot of trouble for the comparatively smaller Warriors team. Celtics had more rebounds, more second-chance points and more points in the paint than the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden State Warriors desperately need to win Game 4 against the Boston Celtics to come back in the series.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@celtics<\/a> win Game 3 and take a 2-1 lead in the 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAFinals?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBAFinals<\/a> presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTubeTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YouTubeTV<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Game 4: Warriors vs. Celtics<br \/>Fri. 9:00pm\/et on ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CLFwjeF8Pt\">pic.twitter.com\/CLFwjeF8Pt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1534741763168079873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Celtics got the better of the Warriors by defeating them 116-100 in Boston. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":38579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2871,1069,3134,2480,1070,3224,826,2035,3136],"class_list":["post-17836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-klay-thompson","tag-marcus-smart","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-stephen-curry"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}