The Boston Celtics didn’t just beat the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night, they produced one of the most efficient shooting performances the league has ever seen. In a 148–111 win at TD Garden, Boston turned nearly every possession into a clean look and then cashed those looks at a historically absurd rate.
By the end of the night, the Celtics had set an NBA single-game record in effective field goal percentage (80.8%), a mark that captures not only how often shots go in, but how heavily the math tilts when threes are falling. The same game also produced an NBA single-game record in true shooting percentage (82.6%), a broader efficiency measure that accounts for threes and free throws as well.
The engine of the eruption was the three-point line. Boston hit 22-of-34 from deep (64.7%), and that percentage was reported as an NBA record in games with at least 20 three-point attempts, a threshold that keeps the achievement from being a small-sample fluke.
The scoreboard reflected the collective nature of it. Jaylen Brown ended with 28 points, nine assists and seven rebounds, and Nikola Vučević scored 28 as Boston rolled to 148 points. And while blowouts often flatten into garbage time, this one carried a different weight because the efficiency itself never felt accidental, it looked like a team fully in rhythm, making the extra pass, spacing the floor, and punishing every late rotation.
