Charlotte Bobcats @ Boston Celtics

29-42, 12-25 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Bobcats CHA	19	18	16	30	83
Celtics BOS	25	17	24	15	81

Boston CelticsCelticsBOS

50-21, 29-8 Home

Charlotte Bobcats

starters
Dominic McGuireD. McGuire
Kwame BrownK. Brown
Boris DiawB. Diaw
Gerald HendersonG. Henderson
D.J. AugustinD.J. Augustin
bench
Eduardo NajeraE. Najera
Tyrus ThomasT. Thomas
D.J. WhiteD.J. White
Dante CunninghamD. Cunningham
Stephen JacksonS. Jackson
Joel PrzybillaJ. Przybilla
DeSagana DiopD. Diop
Matt CarrollM. Carroll
Shaun LivingstonS. Livingston
Garrett TempleG. Temple
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
23	4	1-9	0-1	2-2	7	3	0	1	0	4	3	3	-11
39	12	3-6	0-0	6-7	7	1	3	1	0	1	6	1	-5
26	8	4-14	0-5	0-1	6	2	3	0	1	0	6	5	+5
22	15	5-8	0-1	5-6	2	1	2	0	0	2	0	4	+4
38	14	5-13	1-4	3-3	2	4	3	0	0	0	2	1	-2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
6	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	+2
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	17	7-10	0-0	3-3	6	1	0	1	0	0	6	2	+1
25	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	5	0	1	2	2	0	5	5	+14
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	+1
19	9	3-5	0-0	3-3	2	3	1	1	1	0	2	1	+1
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	83	30-69	1-11	22-25	37	15	17	8	4	7	30	26
		43%	9%	88%

Boston Celtics

starters
Kevin GarnettK. Garnett
Paul PierceP. Pierce
Nenad KrsticN. Krstic
Rajon RondoR. Rondo
Ray AllenR. Allen
bench
Troy MurphyT. Murphy
Glen DavisG. Davis
Jeff GreenJ. Green
Shaquille O'NealS. O'Neal
Jermaine O'NealJ. O'Neal
Carlos ArroyoC. Arroyo
Avery BradleyA. Bradley
Sasha PavlovicS. Pavlovic
Delonte WestD. West
Von WaferV. Wafer
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
32	12	6-9	0-1	0-0	9	1	3	0	2	1	8	4	+2
30	18	6-14	1-5	5-8	3	4	0	1	1	0	3	4	-5
26	7	2-7	0-0	3-6	8	0	1	0	1	2	6	2	+17
40	10	5-8	0-0	0-0	4	5	5	0	0	1	3	2	+2
39	14	2-9	2-7	8-8	5	1	2	1	0	1	4	2	+2
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	9	3-10	0-0	3-3	3	1	2	0	0	0	3	6	-13
26	7	3-7	0-0	1-1	5	2	0	0	1	4	1	1	-7
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	+1
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	2	1-6	0-2	0-0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	-9
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	81	29-71	3-15	20-26	37	15	17	3	5	9	28	24
		41%	20%	77%

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

Matchups

CHA

Season tied

2-2

BOS

Game 1@ CHA

Final

Game 2@ BOS

Final

Game 3@ CHA

Final

Game 4@ BOS

Final

Game Information

Boston, MA

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Referee:Kane Fitzgerald

Referee:David Jones

Referee:Michael Smith

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

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