SportStrata Stories · NBA · 2026-27 Season
The Celtics won by 35 points, then by 1 the next night
Boston beat Chicago 134-99, then beat Brooklyn 125-124 in overtime behind Jayson Tatum's 40 points.
The Boston Celtics won by 35 points one night and by 1 point the next, per ESPN's scoreboard. Boston beat Chicago 134-99, then beat Brooklyn 125-124 in overtime. The 35-point margin was the largest of the 13 games across those 2 nights, and the 1-point margin was the smallest.
Game by game
- Chicago: won 134-99
- Brooklyn: won 125-124 in overtime
Where the points came from
Jayson Tatum scored 23 against Chicago and 40 against Brooklyn, 63 across the 2 nights. Payton Pritchard scored 28 against Chicago. Boston scored 259 points across the 2 nights, and Boston is now 3-1 on the season.
Not just a soft schedule
The skeptic's case is the opposition: Chicago is 1-3 and Brooklyn is 0-4, so Boston beat 2 teams with losing records. But the range is the point. Boston won a blowout and a game that went to overtime on consecutive nights, and Tatum's 40 came in the game that went to overtime.
The caveat
The caveat: 2 games is 2 games, and Chicago and Brooklyn have losing records. What can be said: Boston won both ends of the range, a 35-point win and a 1-point win, on consecutive nights.
Written with AI assistance from SportStrata's own data; every number above is listed with its source in this story's data file. See the data behind this story.