It took them 15 games — nearly one-fifth of the NBA regular season — but the Boston Celtics are finally over .500 .

The Celtics improved to 8-7 with their 113-99 win over the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center on Tuesday night. However, the game was closer than the final score would indicate.

Boston committed a season-high 20 turnovers, allowing the Nets to hang around before finally pulling away during the final minutes. Twelve of those turnovers came during the first half, which the Celtics won by just one point despite shooting 61.1 percent from the floor and making more than half of their 3-pointers.

Boston got out to a slow start, trailing by 10 points midway through the first quarter. Jaylen Brown had only six points in 10 minutes during the first half, but Payton Pritchard sta

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