BOSTON – Jaylen Brown scored 14 of his game-high 31 points in the final quarter and Boston Celtics rallied from a 20-point second-half deficit to claim a 103–95 win over Indiana Pacers on Monday evening.
Derrick White finished with 19 points and Payton Pritchard and Anfernee Simons each scored 11 points for Boston, which won its third straight game.
Pascal Siakam led the Pacers with 25 points and Andrew Nembhard had 20. Indiana, the NBA's worst 3-point shooting team, missed 19 of 20 attempts from behind the arc in the second half to suffer its fifth straight loss.
Brown's best shot of the final quarter came on an off-balance three just in front of Boston's bench, giving the Celtics a 96-91 lead with 2:25 to play.
Nembhard's 3-point play with 3:49 left tied the game at 91.
Trailing 82-74 heading into the fourth, Boston went on an 11-2 run to take the lead for the first time since the first half on Brown's putback layup.
Boston coach Joe Mazulla pulled his starters early in the second half with the Pacers leading 69-49.
The Celtics cut the Pacers' lead to eight points after three. Brown and White returned with a minute left in the third quarter.
Brown was out with an illness in Boston's last game, a win over Toronto on Saturday, when Pritchard scored 33 points.
Coming off a 19-point loss at home to New Orleans on Saturday, the Pacers made 60 percent (12 of 20) of their 3-point attempts in the first half and led 61-43 at the break. Boston, meanwhile, ranked second in the league with 15.7 threes per game and made just 5 of 18 in the first half.
The loss delayed Rick Carlisle's path to his 1,000th NBA coaching victory. The Pacers have lost five straight since beating the Sacramento Kings 116-105 on Dec. 8, and Carlisle has 999 wins in 24 seasons.
Pacers: Host Milwaukee on Tuesday.
Celtics: At Indiana on Friday.
