The Celtics led by five points early before conceding a 14-4 run to end the first quarter and then giving up 16 of the first 22 points in the second.
“I thought they showed a lot of character by even getting to this point.” “When we were down 3-0, the thing was: How do we want to be defined?” said Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla, who took over the team on the eve of training camp when Ime Udoka was suspended for inappropriate workplace behavior. Jayson Tatum, who scored a Game 7 record 51 points against Philadelphia in the conference semis, had 14 points with 11 rebounds after turning his ankle on the first play of the game and limping through 42 minutes. Jaylen Brown scored 19 with eight rebounds but went 1 for 9 from 3-point range and committed eight turnovers. Game 6 hero Derrick White scored 18 for Boston, which was hoping to become the first NBA team in 151 tries to advance after falling behind 0-3 in a best-of-seven series. "This group has shown fortitude, when there are inevitable letdowns and failures, to have that perseverance to pick yourself up, to have that collective spirit to keep on forging ahead until you get to accomplish what you want to.” “Sometimes you have to suffer for the things that you really want," coach Erik Spoelstra said. Three losses later, Miami was on the brink of the wrong kind of history. They put Boston in a 3-0 hole - a deficit no NBA team has ever come back from. They eliminated the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks in five games, then the fifth-seeded Knicks in six. To get there, the Heat had to recover after losing the play-in opener against Atlanta and beat Chicago in a second-chance play-in. 8 seed to reach the NBA Finals since the 1999 New York Knicks. But we’ve got one more to get.”īam Adebayo scored 12 points with 10 rebounds for Miami, which is the first No. As a team, we talked about going and getting a tough one on the road. Game 1 is Thursday night in Denver, where the top-seeded Nuggets have been waiting since sweeping the Los Angeles Lakers on May 22. BOSTON (AP) - No unprecedented comeback, no last-tick miracle, no cavalcade of higher seeds is going to prevent these Miami Heat from playing for the NBA title.Įastern Conference finals Most Valuable Player Jimmy Butler scored 28 points, and Caleb Martin had 26 points and 10 rebounds to help the eighth-seeded Heat beat Boston 103-84 in Game 7 on Monday night and advance to the NBA Finals for the second time in four seasons.Ī year after losing a seventh game to the Celtics, Miami recovered from blowing a 3-0 lead in the series and advanced to face the Western Conference champion Nuggets.
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