Brown (34 pts, 10 3s) spark Celtics

BOSTON — Jaylen Brown scored 34 points, including a career-high 10 3-pointers, and Jayson Tatum added 23 on Sunday to help the Boston Celtics beat the Orlando Magic 112-96 and snap a three-game losing streak.

The Celtics made 23 3pointers in the game, one short of the franchise record. Brown was 10 for 18 from the distance and one short of Marcus Smart’s team record of 11 for one player.

“I lost count at some point,” Brown said. “I wish somebody would have told me that. I would have fired up five, six more to make sure I beat Marcus.”

Nikola Vucevic had 22 points and 13 rebounds for Orlando, which beat Brooklyn

on Friday night to snap a nine-game losing streak. The Magic cut a 23-point, third-quarter deficit to 91-83 early in the fourth before Boston scored 12 of the next 16 points — including a pair of 3-pointers by Brown.

“This team has been in a funk in some ways with that stuff, but that’s not who they are,” Celtics coach Brad Stevens said. “We’ve seen what they do when their backs are against the wall. We know that they compete. There’s never been a question of that.”

The Magic led by as many as five points in the first quarter and held a 40-37 lead with seven minutes left in the second before Brown made a pair of 3-pointers to spark an 11-2 run.

It was 50-46 Celtics in the final minute of the half before Tatum hit back-toback 3s that gave Boston its first double-digit lead. Leading 56-49 early in the third, the Celtics scored 10 straight points to start a 19-5 run that made it a 21-point lead.

Boston made 20 of its first 40 3-point attempts before missing five in a row. It shot 23 of 54 from 3-point range in all.

“They shot the ball very, very well,” Vucevic said. “But a lot of it was also because we didn’t make it hard enough.”

TIP-INS

Celtics: Kemba Walker was tripped up and stayed on the floor for a bit, favoring his left knee, before heading to the bench. He checked back in later in the fourth. … Smart, who had been on a minutes restriction since missing 18 games with a left calf strain, played 33 minutes for the second straight game. He had 11 points and eight assists. … Tatum scored 19 in the first half, including 5 of 7 from 3-point range.