Celtic’s proud of the 60th victory, now ‘shift from gears’ for playoffs

Boston-Payton Pritchard scored 22 points, Sam Hauser had 20 and the Boston Celtics defeated the Charlotte Hornets on Friday evening with 130-94 for their 60th win of the season.

Boston achieved 60 victories for an NBA-Best 15th time in franchise history and the first in two consecutive seasons since 2007-08 and 2008-09. Seven of their previous seasons of 14 60 victories ended with an NBA championship.

“Another incredible season,” said Jayson Tatum, who had 16 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists. “You know, more than 60-winning team. Obviously, the goal is to fight championships, but I think to enjoy the process and appreciate these little profits itself and to recognize that we had another incredible regular season, you will definitely know how to be on.

Derrick White added 19 points, and Al Horford had 13 points with 11 rebounds for the Celtics (60-21), who will play the winner of Orlando Magic-Atlanta Hawk’s play-in tournament in the first round of the playoffs.

The Boston coach Joe Mazzulla interpreted his starters in the last quarter.

Celtics star Jaylen Brown was traveling with a painful right knee that hindered him last month and was not justified for the post -season prices because he did not reach the threshold of the league for played games.

Seth Curry led the Hornets with 17 points and hit his 82nd 3 pointer, which qualified for the percentage of the NBA. It went 5 from 7 to 3S and is 45.6%.

Zach Lavine from Sacramento entered the night and led with 44.6%.

Boston, who set up the league record for 3 Series this month, met seven seven in the third and increased a one-point half-time edge to 91-75 in the fourth.

The Celtics scored a defeat of 20 points in Orlando on Wednesday when they were sitting their six best players.

Boston and Charlotte meet on Sunday in the regular season finale of both teams.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.