![]() ![]() For Miami, the role players performed admirably, including 59 points from their vaunted cadre of undrafted role players - Gabe Vincent, Caleb Martin, Max Strus and Duncan Robinson. Jaylen Brown added 26 of his own, but struggled with foul trouble and a wrist injury, and Marcus Smart continued his Eastern Conference Finals surge with 21 points and 4 made threes. ![]() Jayson Tatum sparked the Celtics tonight, scoring 25 points in the first half and finishing with a total of 31. All it took was one miracle - having blown a lead late in the fourth quarter, Derrick White tipped in a missed three-pointer at the buzzer to score a 104-103 win and put themselves on the precipice of history. Having started off the Eastern Conference Finals by losing three straight games against the Miami Heat, they’ve scored three consecutive wins, giving them a chance to become the first team in NBA history to come back from an 0-3 series deficit. … Lowry and Grant Williams did a little shoving after Williams fouled Adebayo with nine minutes left in the second quarter, with no repercussions.The Boston Celtics have come all the way back. … Adebayo and Butler each grabbed five rebounds in the first quarter. Derrick White, who made a single 3-pointer, was the only player other than Tatum who scored more than 2 points in the first. … Jimmy is just a real competitor.”īoston used a 21-2 run to turn an eight-point, first-quarter deficit into an 11-point lead.īrown was 1 for 7 in the first quarter, when Tatum scored 12. I think now people are just paying more attention. “I love that gnarly version of Jimmy,” Spoelstra said. After Max Strus made one of two free throws, Adebayo scored on a putback dunk to make it 105-100 with less than a minute to play. He made a 17-footer to tie it 100-all, and then a short fadeaway to give Miami the lead. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra challenged, but lost. Miami trailed 98-96 when Butler was called for an offensive foul, kicking Marcus Smart after landing on a missed 3-pointer. … I just don’t know if I was the best person to talk to.”Īfter Tatum missed from long distance - one of three missed 3s in the fourth quarter - Butler drove to the basket to make it a four-point Boston lead. He hit a big shot and started talking to me. “But that’s just competition at its finest. “As long as we get the win, I’m good with it.”Īsked if Boston “poked the bear” by getting Butler angry, Brown said, “Next question.” But Butler said there was no doubt that the attempt to get him off his game actually fired him up. ![]() Butler scored at the other end and was fouled by Williams the two players leaned into each other - drawing double technicals - before Butler hit the ensuing free throw. Williams made a 3-pointer to make it 96-87 and was talking to Butler on the way back down the court. The Celtics led by 11 in the third quarter and made it a dozen early in the fourth. We’ve got so much faith and trust in one another.”Ĭeltics' Grant Williams, Heat's Jimmy Butler Have Heated Game 2 Exchange I love every bit of it,” Butler said on the postgame TV broadcast. Jaylen Brown scored 16 points on 7-for-23 shooting he went 1 for 5 with a turnover in the final quarter, when Miami outscored Boston 36-22. But there’s no point being up here sad and (stuff),” Tatum said. But the Celtics star went 0 for 3 with two turnovers in the fourth quarter, when Boston blew an 89-77 lead en route to a second home loss in three nights.Īfter finishing 13 games ahead of the Heat in the regular-season - and then watching top-seeded Milwaukee fall to Miami in the first round - the Celtics have stumbled on what appeared to be a clear path to their second straight NBA Finals. Jayson Tatum had 34 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists for Boston. “And I’m not going to turn and look otherwise because I respect him as an (expletive) player.” “He’s going to have to make every single tough shot the rest of the series,” Williams said. You could kind of see it in his eyes he was ready to go after that.”īam Adebayo had 22 points, 17 rebounds and nine assists for Miami, which returns home with a chance to sweep and become just the second No. “I knew that was going to be good for us,” said Caleb Martin, who came off the bench to score 25 points. Get Boston local news, weather forecasts, lifestyle and entertainment stories to your inbox. ![]()
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