NBA PLAYOFFS ROUND 2 | Thursday’s game

May 5, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

Wizards 116, Celtics 89

WASHINGTON

John Wall scored 24 points, Isaiah Thomas was held to 13 and the Washington Wizards jumped out to a hot start and rode it to a victory over the Boston Celtics in a technical foul-filled Game 3. The Wizards used a 22-0 first-quarter run to take a 34-12 lead. In the second Washington’s Kelly Oubre Jr. was ejected for charging and knocking over Kelly Olynyk after the Boston big man was called for an illegal screen. There were eight technical fouls and three ejections total. Washington’s 119 first-quarter points is an NBA record for the first three games of a series.

Associated Press