Boston’s Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum turned a matchup of NBA conference leaders into a rout on Wednesday while Ja Morant’s triple-double sparked the Memphis Grizzlies over Oklahoma City.
Tatum and Brown each scored 25 points as the Celtics improved the NBA’s best record to 21-5 with a 125-98 blowout victory at Western Conference leader Phoenix.
Boston stayed two games atop Milwaukee in the Eastern Conference while Phoenix fell to 16-9 and a half-game behind New Orleans (16-8) in the West.
The Suns trailed 69-42 at halftime, their largest deficit of the season to that point, and by as many as 45 points in the third quarter.
“We were just really connected,” Tatum said. “We’re just making the right plays. We hit a lot of shots tonight.”
The Celtics, who lost to Golden State in last season’s NBA Finals, improved to 10-3 on the road.