Boston Celtics – Atlanta Hawks · NBA

Win probability changed during the game. · 28 March 2024

BOS122–123ATL

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Highly recommended

It was more exciting than 94% of NBA games since 2017

· It was still open in the final minutes

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↑ ATL winsBOS wins ↓

Home team's win probability across the game (source: ESPN). The band rises when ATL leads and falls when BOS does.

This is how the game was decided.

Dejounte Murray decided it, the Atlanta Hawks player with the most points (44, with 7 rebounds and 7 assists; +3 with him on the floor). The criterion: the winner's points in the box score; plus-minus says who was on the floor when the game opened up.

The game-winner in Atlanta Hawks 123-122 Boston Celtics (March 28, 2024) was hit by Dejounte Murray: a jump shot with 0.1 s left in overtime, putting the Atlanta Hawks up 123-122. They never trailed again.

The biggest run of Atlanta Hawks 123-122 Boston Celtics (March 28, 2024) was a 8-0 run by the Atlanta Hawks in the second quarter (from 6:05 to 4:58), from 39-44 to 47-44. The Boston Celtics' best was a 7-0 run in the first quarter (from 6:00 to 5:04), from 9-11 to 16-11.

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Play: Dejounte Murray makes 21-foot pullup jump shot.

I count as the game-winner the basket that puts the winning team ahead for good. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

A run here is consecutive points by one team without the opponent scoring. Source: the official NBA play-by-play (since 2002-03) and each team's official box scores.

Source: the game's official box score and play-by-play.

Dejounte Murray decided this game: his points put his team ahead with 0.1 seconds left in overtime 1, and the opponent never led again.

It is one of the 4 games he has decided this way in the NBA since the 2002-03 season.

His profile shows the games Murray decided

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A game is decided by the last basket that puts a team ahead in the final ten seconds of the fourth quarter or of an overtime, if that team wins.

28 March 2024 · The source is the ESPN play-by-play, play espn:401585688:663; the date is the one on the NBA box score.

Rotations · who was on the floor

Closing lineup · BOS

Tatum · Porzingis · White · Brown · Kornet

Closing lineup · ATL

Murray · Hunter · Capela · Fernando · Matthews

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BOS

Jayson Tatum

45′ · -11

Kristaps Porzingis

41′ · -4

Derrick White

41′ · +3

Jaylen Brown

39′ · +8

Jrue Holiday

37′ · -1

Sam Hauser

23′ · +3

Xavier Tillman

9′ · +5

Payton Pritchard

19′ · -11

Luke Kornet

13′ · +3

ATL

Dejounte Murray

47′ · +3

Bogdan Bogdanovic

43′ · +3

De'Andre Hunter

40′ · +1

Vit Krejci

35′ · 0

Clint Capela

33′ · 0

Garrison Mathews

17′ · 0

Bruno Fernando

20′ · +1

Wesley Matthews

24′ · -1

Trent Forrest

6′ · -2

Each bar is a stint on the floor (source: NBA). The number is minutes played and the team's +/− with him on the court. BOS and ATL.

These lineups played the most minutes together.

Boston Celtics

Brown, Tatum, White, Holiday, and Porzingis played 25.2 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Tatum, Kornet, Pritchard, Hauser, and Holiday played 5.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Brown, White, Tillman, Hauser, and Porzingis played 5.1 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 10 points.

Atlanta Hawks

Murray, Hunter, Krejci, Capela, and Bogdanovic played 20.3 minutes together.
Their team tied that stretch.
Murray, Hunter, Matthews, Capela, and Bogdanovic played 8.7 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Murray, Hunter, Mathews, Krejci, and Capela played 4.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.

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Boston Celtics

Brown, Tatum, Kornet, Pritchard, and Hauser played 2.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 1 point.
Tatum, Pritchard, Tillman, Hauser, and Porzingis played 2.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Tatum, White, Hauser, Holiday, and Porzingis played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 5 points.
Brown, Tatum, White, Pritchard, and Porzingis played 2.4 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 4 points.
Brown, White, Kornet, Pritchard, and Hauser played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.
Tatum, White, Pritchard, Holiday, and Porzingis played 1.8 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.

Atlanta Hawks

Murray, Fernando, Mathews, Matthews, and Bogdanovic played 4.0 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 5 points.
Fernando, Mathews, Forrest, Matthews, and Bogdanovic played 3.3 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Fernando, Forrest, Krejci, Matthews, and Bogdanovic played 2.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Murray, Fernando, Hunter, Mathews, and Krejci played 2.9 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 1 point.
Murray, Fernando, Krejci, Matthews, and Bogdanovic played 2.5 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 3 points.
Murray, Fernando, Hunter, Mathews, and Matthews played 1.9 minutes together.
Their team lost that stretch by 2 points.
Murray, Fernando, Hunter, Krejci, and Bogdanovic played 1.8 minutes together.
Their team won that stretch by 2 points.

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The lineups come from the NBA's official rotation: who was on the floor and when. Each lineup's plus-minus is worked out from every player's stints and is only shown when they all add up with each other and with the final score.

Dejounte Murray covered 5.39 km, more than anyone in the game.

Dejounte Murray touched the ball 130 times, a game high.
Dejounte Murray made 80 passes, a game high.
Clint Capela had 22 rebound chances, a game high.

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Boston Celtics

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Jayson Tatum	4.67	5.8	87	56
Derrick White	4.36	5.9	79	65
Kristaps Porziņģis	4.25	5.9	56	30
Jaylen Brown	4.18	6.0	49	26
Jrue Holiday	4.05	6.2	48	36
Sam Hauser	2.75	6.9	27	21
Payton Pritchard	2.19	6.5	34	28
Luke Kornet	1.46	6.2	13	10
Xavier Tillman	1.03	6.7	11	8

Atlanta Hawks

Player	km	km/h	Touches	Passes
Dejounte Murray	5.39	6.4	130	80
Bogdan Bogdanović	5.15	6.6	73	47
De'Andre Hunter	4.22	6.0	65	45
Vít Krejčí	3.94	6.3	21	18
Clint Capela	3.59	6.1	39

The figures come from the NBA's optical tracking (NBA.com) for this game; speed is each player's average while on the floor.

Who stood out on defense during the season

These figures cover the whole 2023-24 regular season, not this game.

Boston Celtics

Kristaps Porziņģis defended 7.8 shots at the rim per game over his 57 games, and opponents made 14 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 1 of 146 in the league.
Jaylen Brown recovered 1.1 loose balls per game over his 70 games.
He ranks 5 of 373 in the league.
Xavier Tillman defended 4.2 shots at the rim per game over his 54 games, and opponents made 9 fewer out of every 100 than usual.
He ranks 14 of 146 in the league.

Atlanta Hawks

Dejounte Murray deflected 3.0 passes per game over his 78 games.
He ranks 8 of 373 in the league.
Garrison Mathews drew 0.25 charges per game over his 60 games.
He ranks 9 of 373 in the league.
Clint Capela drew 0.19 charges per game over his 73 games.
He ranks 12 of 373 in the league.

Hustle figures come from the hustle stats the NBA publishes (NBA.com) and rim defense comes from its tracking; both cover the regular season. For each player in this game we show the figure that ranks him highest in the league, and for each team, the three best ranked. Ranks count players with at least 30 games and, at the rim, at least 4 defended shots per game.

The Atlanta Hawks have won 122 of their 298 games against the Boston Celtics.

122-176record of the Atlanta Hawks · NBA 1968-69 – 2025-26, regular season and playoffs

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Official NBA box scores, regular season and playoffs, 1968-69 – 2025-26. It counts every game between the two teams that the house holds, this one included.

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Game context

Attendance

17.743

104.1% of capacity

State Farm Arena · Atlanta

Scoring

245

combined points

16.6 above the season average (228.4)

⚖️ The last two minutes

Official NBA L2M report: every call in the endgame, reviewed by the league.

26 calls reviewed1 errors admitted by the NBA

Turnover: 5 Second Inbound · 00:40.4

Vit Krejci → Celtics

Krejci (ATL) does not release the in-bounds pass within 5 seconds.