Boston Celtics @ Memphis Grizzlies
Friday, March 20, 2026 at 8:00 PM ET
FedExForum, Memphis, TN | Game ID: 22501019
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
MEM 27 27 34 24 112BOS 29 26 29 33 117
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Jaylen Brown has 30 points as Celtics rally to defeat Grizzlies 117-112
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- — Jaylen Brown scored 30 points, Luka Garza added a season-high 22 points and the Boston Celtics used a fourth-quarter rally to defeat the Memphis Grizzlies 117-112 on Friday night.
Payton Pritchard added 19 points for the Celtics, who have won four straight. The win kept Boston in second place in the East, 1 1/2 games ahead of the New York Knicks who held on for a 93-92 victory over Brooklyn earlier Friday night.
Tyler Burton , who signed a 10-day contract with Memphis on March 12, led the Grizzlies with 23 points, a career-high. Ty Jerome added 16 points and seven assists. Javon Small and DeJon Jarreau finished with 13 points each.
Memphis was able to stay close through three quarters as Boston struggled shooting, converting only 40% of its shots entering the fourth. Turnovers also plagued the Celtics.
Memphis held a 103-102 lead with 5:33 left, but Boston went on a 10-point rally to end the Grizzlies hopes.
The Grizzlies, who snapped an eight-game losing streak with a 125-118 victory over Denver on Wednesday night, are limping their way through the season's final weeks. Memphis was again short-handed with nine players on the injury list, including several players already undergoing season-ending surgeries.
In contrast, the main absent Celtic was Nikola Vucevic who missed his seventh straight game with a fractured right ring finger.
Both teams struggled from outside the arc through much of the first half, which kept the score low and the Grizzlies close. Until the 4-minute mark of the second quarter, both teams had converted only a trio of 3-pointers each. Meanwhile, Jayson Tatum missed his first eight shots.
Brown's 16 points helped Boston carry a 55-54 lead into the half.
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Who
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
BOSBS B. Scheierman
DW D. White
GO Gonzalez
HG H. González
JB J. Brown
JT J. Tatum
LG L. Garza
NQ N. Queta
PP P. Pritchard
SH S. Hauser
MEMCS C. Spencer
DJ D. Jarreau
JS J. Small
JW J. Wells
OP O. Prosper
TB T. Burton
TH T. Hendricks
TJ T. Jerome
WC W. Clayton Jr.
BOS/MEM the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur