NBA 2024-25Regular season

Final

Cleveland Cavaliers123–116Boston Celtics

Cleveland Cavaliers at Boston Celtics

Date: Friday 28 February 2025
Arena: TD Garden19,156 fans
Season: NBA 2024-25Regular season
Meeting: 281st meetingof 284 played

Line score

Line score
Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	T
Cleveland Cavaliers	26	38	31	28	123
Boston Celtics	38	36	24	18	116

Cleveland Cavaliers

Cleveland Cavaliers box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Donovan Mitchell	35:08	13–26	5–12	10–11	0	3	3	5	1	0	2	1	41	0
Darius Garland	31:32	9–23	2–7	0–0	1	2	3	7	0	0	1	0	20	-17
Evan Mobley	28:57	6–12	2–5	3–4	5	7	12	3	0	1	2	4	17	+2
De'Andre Hunter	28:51	4–6	3–3	1–2	0	5	5	1	0	1	1	1	12	+21
Jarrett Allen	23:43	4–4	0–0	2–2	3	1	4	1	1	0	1	2	10	-23
Max Strus	21:37	1–3	0–2	0–0	1	3	4	2	0	0	0	2	2	-19
Ty Jerome	21:08	3–10	2–3	0–0	1	3	4	3	1	0	0	0	8	+34
Dean Wade	19:10	2–5	1–3	0–0	1	2	3	1	0	0	0	2	5	+12
Sam Merrill	17:44	1–1	1–1	0–0	2	1	3	0	1	0	0	1	3	+22
Isaac Okoro	12:08	2–4	1–3	0–0	0	3	3	0	0	1	0	1	5	+3
Team totals	239:58	45–94	17–39	16–19	14	30	44	23	4	3	7	14	123	—

Boston Celtics

Boston Celtics box score
Player	MIN	FG	3P	FT	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	+/−
Derrick White	41:06	5–12	4–10	2–2	0	1	1	5	3	0	1	3	16	-2
Jayson Tatum	40:35	19–37	4–12	4–5	5	11	16	9	0	3	3	4	46	+5
Sam Hauser	37:43	2–8	2–6	0–0	2	4	6	1	0	0	0	2	6	+18
Al Horford	37:34	2–4	1–1	0–0	1	6	7	2	0	0	1	0	5	+4
Jaylen Brown	33:55	13–24	4–6	7–10	4	1	5	2	0	0	3	4	37	+10
Payton Pritchard	25:24	2–4	2–4	0–0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	2	6	-36
Luke Kornet	19:17	0–0	0–0	0–0	2	3	5	0	1	2	1	4	0	-26
Torrey Craig	2:57	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-8
Drew Peterson	1:27	0–0	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals	239:58	43–89	17–39	13–17	14	26	40	20	5	5	11	19	116	—

This season

Boston Celtics 2, Cleveland Cavaliers 2 in NBA 2024-25.

19 Nov 2024Cleveland Cavaliers 117–120 Boston Celtics
1 Dec 2024Boston Celtics 111–115 Cleveland Cavaliers
4 Feb 2025Boston Celtics 112–105 Cleveland Cavaliers
28 Feb 2025123–116 this game

Records going in

Cleveland Cavaliers: 48–10
Boston Celtics: 42–17

Regular season, before this game.

Meetings

All-time: Boston Celtics 170, Cleveland Cavaliers 114.

4 Feb 2025Boston Celtics 112–105 Cleveland Cavaliers
29 Oct 2025Cleveland Cavaliers 105–125 Boston Celtics

Data: Basketball-Reference, NBA stats API.