Jaylen Brown said moves like the Knicks' addition of Mikal Bridges and the Cavs' addition of DeAndre Hunter are a source of motivation

The Celtics now own a four-game lead over the Knicks and the head-to-head tiebreaker for the two-seed in the East (Boston still trails Cleveland by six games for the top seed). The two teams will square off one final time in the regular season when they meet at Madison Square Garden on April 8.

After New York cut a 27-point lead down to 4 early in the fourth quarter, Brown kicked it into a new gear to push Boston’s lead back to blowout status.