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BOSTON — Payton Pritchard scored 28 points and the NBA-leading Boston Celtics routed the Brooklyn Nets 136-86 to give Joe Mazzulla his 100th victory as head coach. Derrick White finished with 27 points. Jayson Tatum added 20 points, nine assists and seven rebounds for the Celtics, who defeated the Nets on back-to-back nights and for the fourth time this season in both teams' final game before the All-Star break. Boston will enter it with an NBA-best 43-12 record. The Celtics went 57-25 in Mazzulla's first year as coach last season. Wednesday marked the fifth 50-point win in team history. Trendon Watford had 15 points for the Nets. They trailed by as many as 56 points in the the fourth quarter.
