| Box Score | ||||||||||||||||
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| pos | player | min | fgm | fga | ftm | fta | 3gm | 3ga | orb | reb | ast | stl | to | blk | pf | pts |
| PG | Terrell Brandon | 19 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PG | Damon Jones | 25 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| SG | Latrell Sprewell | 38 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14 |
| SG | Sasha Djordjevic | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| SF | John Wallace | 35 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 22 |
| SF | Oscar Torres | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| PF | Vlad Radmanovic | 31 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| PF | Lari Ketner | 19 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| C | Shaquille O'Neal | 35 | 13 | 24 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 30 |
| C | Marc Jackson | 11 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| C | Chris Anstey | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| C | Jake Voskuhl | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Celtics | 0 | 37 | 79 | 21 | 27 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 41 | 22 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 18 | 98 | |
| pos | player | min | fgm | fga | ftm | fta | 3gm | 3ga | orb | reb | ast | stl | to | blk | pf | pts |
| PG | Mike Bibby | 29 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| PG | Bobby Jackson | 34 | 9 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 20 |
| SG | Michael Finley | 22 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| SG | Fred Hoiberg | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| SF | Lamar Odom | 39 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 14 |
| SF | Ed O'Bannon | 26 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
| PF | Brian Scalabrine | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C | Erick Dampier | 33 | 11 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 22 |
| C | Jerome James | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| PG | Jason Hart | 18 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| C | Jim McIlvaine | 14 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| C | Oliver Miller | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hornets | 0 | 47 | 90 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 15 | 48 | 32 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 24 | 101 | |
| team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | F | |||||||||||
| Celtics (15 - 6) | 27 | 21 | 22 | 28 | 0 | 98 | ||||||||||
| Hornets (10 - 14) | 21 | 24 | 26 | 30 | 0 | 101 | ||||||||||
| ATTENDANCE: 24042 | ||||||||||||||||
| CAPACITY: 24042 | ||||||||||||||||
| Terrell Brandon 3 game injury |