{"id":462028,"date":"2025-12-21T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T10:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/462028\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T10:48:18","slug":"today-in-boston-celtics-history-celtics-beat-jazz-without-making-a-3-pointer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/462028\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Boston Celtics history: Celtics beat Jazz without making a 3-pointer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today in Boston Celtics history, two unusual Celtics tilts occurred — both within the last two decades of the history of the NBA. The first of the two games was a contest on this date in the year 2000 that saw the Celtics play the New York Knicks<\/a> on the road in Madison Square Garden in which their Atlantic Division foe did not miss a single free throw over the course of the whole game.<\/p>\n

Of course, it helps when the opposing team only shoots a total of just 9 free throws throughout the course of the entire game, which was the case with the Knicks that night.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately for the Knicks, it would not be enough to secure the win, with New York falling to Boston 92-86.<\/p>\n

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Jan 21, 2011; Boston, MA, USA; Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward (20) drives the ball during the first half past Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce (34) the at the TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

It is also the date of a game five years to the day that saw the Celtics beat the Utah Jazz<\/a> 101-89 in 2005. This game would have otherwise been unremarkable except for one highly unusual fact — the Celtics did not make a single 3-point shot at any point in the game. It wasn’t for lack of trying, though — Paul Pierce himself shot 5 of the 10 total Boston put up throughout the course of the game.<\/p>\n

It was the first time since 1999 that such an unusual quirk had happened in a game, a 0-of-6 affair against the Atlanta Hawks, the fourth-longest streak in NBA history. “It’s a step in the right direction. Hopefully, it’s something we can build on,” said Pierce after the win\u00a0via ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: Celtics history: Celtics beat Jazz without making a 3-pointer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today in Boston Celtics history, two unusual Celtics tilts occurred — both within the last two decades of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":462029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3119,3125,1260,3122,48874,62,67,132,68,3132],"class_list":{"0":"post-462028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-york-knicks","12":"tag-paul-pierce","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-utah-jazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115757168519572818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}