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Celtics lose, fail to clinch Atlantic (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

Charlie Villanueva scored 11 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter, and the Milwaukee Bucks held off the Boston Celtics 86-77 on Sunday. Kendrick Perkins scored a career-high 26 points with 12 rebounds, but had little help from anybody else as Milwaukee denied the defending champions a chance to clinch their second straight Atlantic Division crown.