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Derrick White<\/a> also scored 18 points for the Celtics, who have won three straight and seven of eight. White and Pritchard each had nine assists.<\/p>\n Antetokounmpo had 19 points and 11 rebounds in 25 minutes in his first action since getting injured<\/a> on Jan. 23. The Bucks went 8-7 during his absence.<\/p>\n Overall this season, the Bucks are 15-16 with Antetokounmpo and 11-18 without him.<\/p>\n Boston was missing five-time All-Star Jaylen Brown<\/a> due to an illness. The Celtics also rested Neemias Queta<\/a>, who scored a career-high 27 points in a 114-98 victory<\/a> over the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n Gonz\u00e1lez started for just the third time. The 28th overall pick in the 2025 draft came in averaging 3.9 points and 3.3 rebounds.<\/p>\n Nikola Vucevic<\/a> had 10 points, seven assists and five rebounds in his first start since the Celtics acquired the two-time All-Star from Chicago at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n Boston went on a 24-5 run that started late in the first quarter and carried over to the second as the Celtics turned a 15-14 deficit into a 38-20 lead. Boston stayed in control the rest of the way.<\/p>\n The Celtics led by 22 before carrying a 57-43 edge into halftime. Milwaukee cut the margin to nine early in the second half, but Boston responded with 15 straight points.<\/p>\n Milwaukee has lost its last three games, all by at least 23 points.<\/p>\n Up next
<\/p>\n Celtics: Host Charlotte on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Bucks: Host Atlanta on Wednesday.<\/p>\n ——<\/p>\n AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n MILWAUKEE — \u2014 Payton Pritchard scored 25 points, rookie Hugo Gonz\u00e1lez had career highs of 18 points and 16 rebounds, and the Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee 108-81 on Monday night to spoil Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo\u2019s return from a right calf strain. Derrick White also scored 18 points for the Celtics, who have won three … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Celtics-108-81-Bucks-Mar-2-2026-Game-Recap.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22642,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions\/22642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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