Jae Crowder and Isaiah Thomas scored 20 points each and the Boston Celtics cruised to a 112-92 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday night.
Avery Bradley had 19 points and Marcus Smart added 16 off the bench for the Celtics, who have won five of seven.
Robert Covington scored 25 points to lead Philadelphia.
The game originally was scheduled for Saturday but was postponed due to Winter Storm Jonas. With Philadelphia’s airport closed on Saturday, the Celtics instead practiced in Boston and arrived in Philadelphia on Sunday morning.
The struggling 76ers have been playing better of late, having won five of 13 coming in, but they looked very much like the team that tied the NBA’s worst start at 0-18 this season.
Philadelphia has lost 11 games by 20 or more points.
Arriving on the day of the game didn’t seem to bother the Celtics at all. Boston cruised to an 18-point halftime lead and then blew the game open in the third quarter when they led by 29 points while outscoring Philadelphia by 10 points to take a 94-69 lead into the fourth.
The Celtics shot 64 percent from the field in the third period. Like the previous two quarters, Boston’s players seemingly got wideopen shot after wide-open shot from everywhere on the court.
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