Jaylen Brown scored a game-high 28 points and dished out nine assists to lead the Boston Celtics to a 130-120 victory over the visiting Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night.

Boston’s Kristaps Porzingis added 26 points and nine rebounds, and Sam Hauser made 5 of 10 3-point attempts and scored 20 points. Payton Pritchard contributed 19 points, Derrick White added 14 points and 11 assists and Al Horford also had 14 points.

The Celtics extended their home winning streak to six games and won for the ninth time in ten games. Detroit suffered its third consecutive defeat.

Cade Cunningham collected 27 points, nine rebounds and 14 assists for the Pistons, who fell despite making 20 of their 39 3-point attempts (51.3 percent). Tobias Harris also poured in 27 points for Detroit and Malik Beasley finished with 23.

Boston played without Jayson Tatum (right knee) and Jrue Holiday (left knee). Tatum is averaging 28.4 points per game and a game-best 8.6 rebounds per game. Holiday is averaging 11.7 points per contest.

Before the game, Boston coach Joe Mazzulla said that Tatum was suffering from an illness that was getting better every day.

The Celtics led 39-24 after one quarter and 72-58 at halftime. Before halftime, Boston made 11 of 26 3-point attempts (42.3 percent) and shot 56.5 percent from the field.

Brown scored 23 of his 28 points in the first 24 minutes.

The Pistons got within 10 points after a 3-pointer from Harris made it 90-80 with 5:19 remaining in the third quarter, but Boston increased the lead to 103-88 in the fourth quarter.

The Celtics led by 20 points early in the final quarter before Detroit went on a 12-0 run to make it 109-101, capped by a 3-pointer from Beasley. A jumper from Cunningham cut the deficit to six with 6:48 to play, but the Pistons couldn’t get closer than five the rest of the way.

The contest was the second between the Celtics and Pistons this season. Boston won 124-118 in Detroit on October 26th. The teams will meet again on December 12th in Boston and February 26th in Detroit.

–Field level media