Jaylen Brown returned to Boston's lineup after sitting out Tuesday night at Phoenix with a right knee contusion. Brown had 23 points for the Celtics, who finished 3-1 on a Western Conference trip. They had won five straight and nine of 10 before running out of steam in the thin air.

Throughout most of the first three quarters of the Boston Celtics 103-84 loss to the Denver Nuggets, the Celtics were able to keep the game close despite shooting just 28% from beyond the arc and 35% from the field overall.

The Boston Celtics (38-19) wrap up a four-game road trip tonight at Ball Arena against the Denver Nuggets (36-22) in a battle of NBA heavyweights. The Celtics have won each of the first three games on this West Coast road trip and four games in a row overall while the Nuggets have alternated wins and losses over their last six games.

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The Boston Celtics are on the road on Wednesday night as they travel to take on the Denver Nuggets in an interconference showdown. Boston enters Wednesday’s game with a 38-19 record after defeating the Phoenix Suns on the road on Tuesday night.

The Celtics hung around for about two-and-a-half quarters, but then Denver went on a huge run and Boston seemed to succumb to the fatigue of three-games-in-four-nights. The win streak is over after a 103-84 loss. Both teams struggled offensively in a ...

Wednesday night would see the end of the Boston Celtics four-game West Coast road trip, and on the unfortunate side, the end of their five-game winning streak. Coming into the second night of a back-to-back, the Celtics saw their success out of the All ...

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