Highlights: Boston Celtics 126-112 Portland Trail Blazers in NBA

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With the result, the Celtics reached 49 wins, while the Blazers lost for the 39th time.

Blazers 112-126 Celtics.

Celtics with five straight points and open 13 with one minute and 33 seconds left.

Blazers with another sequence of four points and difference drops to 10 points in the final stretch.

Blazers with six points in a row. 93-106.

Blazers have a slight advantage in the period, but are still far behind on the overall scoreboard.

The game returned with both teams exchanging points.

Blazers 70-89 Celtics.

Celtics with nine straight points and opens 21 more points in the final stretch of the third period. Tatum has 29 points and is the best scorer in the match.

Blazers with five points in a row and reduces the gap to 12 points.

Celtics play calmly and open up a 19-point lead.

Game starts balanced in the third period.

Blazers 48-63 Celtics.

Celtics manage the result in the final stretch of the first half.

Celtics improve at the end of the second period and open 16 points more.

Blazers six straight points and closing in on the scoreboard.

Celtics are still better and open 12 points more at this point.

Blazers 27-34 Celtics.

Celtics lead by eight points in the final stretch of the first period.

Celtics with seven straight points.

Celtics have six points at this point in the game, with Horford leading the way with eight.

Celtics reacted quickly and lead the score at this point by one point.

Blazers começa melhor e abre três pontos a mais.

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"Obviously, we've got to play better than we've played the last three quarters of this game to be able to beat anybody, so you worry about that," Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups said. "That's what keeps you up at night."

"For us to win games against adversity is going to be critical for us," said Celtics guard Marcus Smart. "We're going to get the best chance ever. For us it's just keep playing. The teams will start running and we just have to do a good job of taking the hit and then delivering ours."

"It's definitely frustrating," Lillard said after the Knicks loss. “When you're fighting for something and you look back at the last two weeks, it's like we let a lot of opportunity slip away.

"And you look at what everybody does in the same month that we are. ... You see teams taking advantage of these opportunities and us not doing that. We're kind of falling behind."

PG - Marcos Smart
SG - Derrick White
SF -Jaylen Brown
PF - Jayson Tatum
C - Al Hoford.

PG - Damian Lillard
SF - Cam Raddish
SF - Anfernee Simons
PF - Jerami Grant
C - Jusuf Nurkic.

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  the Blazers' biggest highlight of the season. The point guard averages 32.3 points per game.

PG - Damian Lillard

SF - Cam Raddish

SF - Anfernee Simons

PF - Jerami Grant

C - Jusuf Nurkic.

The Portland Trail Blazers arrive for the confrontation with a negative campaign of 38 defeats and 31 victories, with four negative results in a row.

  the Celtics' biggest highlight of the season.   he averages 30.1 points per game.

PG - Marcos Smart

SG - Derrick White

SF -Jaylen Brown

PF - Jayson Tatum

C - Al Hoford.

The Boston Celtics arrive for the confrontation with 48 wins and 22 losses, having the second best campaign in the Eastern Conference.

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is the national basketball league in the United States, with 30 teams divided into two groups, separated by the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference. The league was founded on June 6, 1946, as the BAA (Basketball Association of America), but three years later it merged with the NBL (National Basketball League), becoming the NBA we know today.

The first winner was the Los Angeles Lakers, who amended four titles in a row with an initial dynasty in the league. It was only stopped by the Golden State Warriors, and soon after by the Baltimore Bullets.

Today, the Lakers, along with the Boston Celtics, are the biggest winners in the NBA, with 17 titles each. Golden State Warriors appear soon after with seven, where they got another dynasty in the league with Curry, Klay Thomspon, Kevin Durant and Draymond Green.
The league also divides the awards by sectors. The most valuable is MVP, where they elect the best athlete in the league based only on the regular season. Right after that, there are awards for best trainer, best executive, sixth man, rookie and several others. Currently, the player with the most MVP awards is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with six. Next, Michael Jordan has five, along with Bill Russell. LeBron James, still active, has four awards.

The current league champions are the Golden State Warriors, where they defeated the Boston Celtics 4-2 in the decision. The Warriors finished third in the Western Conference, passing the Denver Nuggets, Memphis Grizzlies and Dallas Mavericks in the postseason, to win the tournament. Center Nikola Jokić is the current MVP of the season, where he won for the second time in a row. Stephen Curry, Warriors point guard, is the current Finals MVP.

The current season has great teams like Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers, Miami Heat and Brooklyn Nets in the Eastern Conference, while Phoenix Suns, Memphis Girzzlies, Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks, Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Clippers dispute the best positions in the Western Conference. Still, there are teams that are favorites to go further, such as the Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks, Portland Trail Blazers and LeBron James' Los Angeles Lakers.

Finally, big stars are candidates for the MVP award, such as Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jayson Tatum, Joel Embiid, Kevin Durant, Ja Morant, Stephen Curry, Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic and LeBron James.

The Boston Celtics vs Portland Trail Blazers game will be played at Moda Center, with a capacity of 19.000 people.

My name is Thomas Alencar and I will be your host for this game. We will provide pre-match analysis, score updates and news as it happens live here on VAVEL.