Jaylen Brown scored 40 points and grabbed nine rebounds as the Boston Celtics closed out a perfect road trip with a 121-113 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday.
Brown finished 17 of 20 from the field and at one point made 11 consecutive shots.
The Celtics, who wound up 3-0 on the trek and earned their fifth straight win overall, never trailed in the game. The lead was 27 points early in the fourth quarter before the Lakers’ bench made the final margin closer.
Boston’s Marcus Smart and Payton Pritchard each scored 15 points. Jayson Tatum and Tristan Thompson contributed 14 points apiece, and Kemba Walker had 12 points and seven rebounds.
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