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BOSTON (AP) -- Kevin Garnett scored 21 points, Paul Pierce added 20 and Rajon Rondo had 12 assists on Friday night to lead the Boston Celtics to their fifth straight win, a 110-86 victory over the Utah Jazz.
Deron Williams had a season-low five points for the Jazz, who have lost three in a row. Earl Watson scored 12 for Utah, while Paul Millsap, Gordon Hayward and Andrei Kirilenko had 11 apiece.
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Glen "Big Baby" Davis scored 15 and Semih Erden had a career-high 14 points for Boston, which scored the last 11 points of the first half and never trailed by fewer than 17 in the second.
Williams made just one basket -- his fewest in almost 12 months -- to end a string of 48 straight regular-season games of double-digit scoring.
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