Jaylen Brown Says Celtics Using Challenging Stretch to ‘Build Endurance for the Postseason’

The Celtics beat the Heat by a final score of 143-110 in what was one of the team's best offensive performances of the season.

The Boston Celtics are fresh off one of their most impressive wins of the 2023-24 regular season. The team earned a 33-point road victory over Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat on Thursday night.

Star Jaylen Brown — who dropped 18 points on the Heat — said after the game that the Celtics are using this challenging stretch of their regular-season schedule to "build endurance for the postseason."

"I think that we've been stellar at home, but we also wanna be a little bit better on the road," Brown said. "So, this whole (entire) trip, we wanted to make sure we came out and played our best version of basketball. 

"I said before the trip started that these next stretch of games is gonna be important for us, kind of build endurance for the postseason. And now I think the way we handled this stretch, I think we handled it pretty well, and we gotta keep going now through All-Star break and just run through the finish line."

Brown and the Celtics will take on another formidable opponent in the Los Angeles Clippers — who have won three games in a row and eight of their last 10 — at home on Saturday.

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