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Heats and celtics12/24/2023 Three things happened in the confusion that followed. Al Horford fouled Butler on his lunging shot from the right baseline. Tatum, Brown and the rest appeared to have Game 6 tucked away Saturday, too, until their shots turned cold, the Heat started to grind and then the unthinkable occurred. Then came Game 4, then Game 5, both Boston victories. That the Celtics were the higher seed with the legitimate championship aspirations only added embarrassment to their predicament. Greedy cusses that we are, we’ll show up or tune in Monday unapologetically expecting to witness this all over again.īoston had plunged itself into the worst sort of nightmare a playoff team can experience, losing once, twice, three times in rapid succession to set up what history told us was inevitable: certain elimination, as demonstrated by the 150 other teams in history that never climbed out of an 0-3 hole in a best-of-seven series. Heck, it might have a lot of viewers aching vaguely for something more even as the Finals play out over the next couple weeks. It set a standard that’s going to be difficult for the actual Game 7 to match, never mind surpass. It was a tortuous, excruciating, marvelous, ridiculous 48 minutes of basketball, spread across two hours and 40 minutes of extreme entertainment. GameTime dissects how the Celtics escaped Game 6 to force a winner-take-all Game 7 for the Eastern Conference championship. “Ooh-whee,” Boston’s Jayson Tatum said from the postgame podium as he alternately ran his hands over his face and head and marveled at the score sheet before him. There was so much chatter in the 48 hours leading up to Saturday about how “Game 6 is Miami’s Game 7.” Well, yes, as far as the opportunity the Heat didn’t want to squander, a third straight chance to close out Boston without facing elimination yet itself.īut also no, because this series is firmly in Yogi Berra territory now. In the meantime, here are five takeaways from the Celtics’ Game 6 victory: Both the Celtics and the Heat will get the chance to be first when they play Game 7 Monday at Boston’s TD Garden ( 8:30 ET, TNT). “First to four,” Miami center Bam Adebayo said, trying to impose some sobriety that has careened from one three-game losing streak to another. Exhilarating for the visitors, stunning to the Heat and its sellout crowd at Kaseya Center Saturday night.ĭerrick White's incredible game-winner helps Boston move to the brink of the greatest comeback in NBA playoffs history. Little did Brown or anyone else realize how remarkably Derrick White was about to answer his teammate’s call to the heavens, hitting a putback at the buzzer to give Boston a 104-103 victory. “Whatever prayer I got, whatever dua I got, reciting it over and over in my head.” “In all honesty, at that point, I’m in full prayer mode,” Boston’s All-NBA guard said. The third put Miami ahead and seemingly on its way to the 2023 NBA Finals.īrown’s thoughts and emotions there and then, with the Celtics’ season on the brink? The first made got the Heat within 102-101. It still was nine a couple minutes after that.Īnd then the floor really fell out, and Jaylen Brown and his teammates had to stand there, helplessly, as Miami’s Jimmy Butler lined up three free throws with three seconds left. Three minutes later, the Boston Celtics were up by 10. MIAMI - His team fell behind by a point with eight minutes left, after leading almost the entire game. With their improbable Game 6 victory, the Cetlics are just 1 win from making NBA playoff history.
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