{"id":1959,"date":"2011-04-21T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2011-04-21T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:24:13","slug":"around-the-nba-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/around-the-nba-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/celtics.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1960\" title=\"celtics\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/celtics-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/celtics-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/celtics-50x50.gif 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/celtics-70x70.gif 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/celtics-55x55.gif 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Boston Celtics needed a bit of their patented &#8220;Irish&#8221; luck on  Tuesday night to pull out a 96-93 victory over New York to take a 2-0  series lead in the opening round best-of-seven playoff matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Garnett scored with 14 seconds remaining and then made a crucial  steal with 0:04 left on the clock to seal the win. The Celtic triumph  negated a career-tying playoff best 42 points from Knick Carmelo  Anthony, who received little support from his teammates. Anthony also  added 17 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>New York was without PG Chauncey Billups and without Amare Stoudemire in  the 2nd-half due to back spasms. Billups, out with a strained knee  ligament, is a game-time decision for Game 3, while Stoudemire expects  to play.<\/p>\n<p>Boston featured a balanced attack, led by Rajon Rondo&#8217;s 30 points, Paul  Pierce&#8217;s 20 and Ray Allen with 18. Toney Douglas with 14 and Jared  Jeffries with 10 points were the only Knicks besides Anthony to reach  double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Game Three is Friday night at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics needed a bit of their patented &#8220;Irish&#8221; luck on Tuesday night to pull out a 96-93 victory over New York to take a 2-0 series lead in the opening round best-of-seven playoff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,16],"tags":[1103,1101,1105,1102,992,1104,957],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-featured-news","category-sports-recreation","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-celtics","tag-chauncey-billups","tag-game-2","tag-highlights","tag-kevin-garnett","tag-knicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}