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January 23, 1956 Warriors beat Celtics again

The Philadelphia Warriors the team with the NBA's best record went into New Haven, Connecticut and beat the Boston Celtics by the score of 120-104. This was the 2nd day in a row the Warriors beat Boston and they put more distance between themselves and the Celtics in the Eastern division. The Warriors controlled the game from start to finish as they ended up with their 2nd straight double digit win over Boston. Boston's record for the season dropped to 24-17 3 1/2 games behind the Warriors.

Box Score

Philadelphia (120) G F PF P
Arizin lf 10 5 4 25
Johnston rf 11 7 1 29
Davis 0 0 0 0
Graboski c 10 2 4 22
Gola 4 2 4 10
Dempsey lg 7 2 0 16
George rg 7 4 4 18
Beck 0 0 0 0
Hennessy 0 0 0 0
Moore 0 0 0 0

Total..49 22 17 120

Boston (104) G F PF P
Macauley lf 11 9 2 31
Hemric rf 2 1 4 5
Loscutoff 11 3 2 25
Palazzi 0 0 0 0
Risen c 3 1 6 7
Morrison 2 0 0 4
Cousy lg 3 0 1 6
Sharman rg 6 8 2 20
Barrett 2 2 3 6

Total...40 24 20 104

Warriors....33 29 26 32-120
Celtics........21 26 30 27-104

Free Throws Missed-Macauley, Hemric, Risen, Johnston, Gola, George 2

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