Heat - 22 30 24 27 - 103 Celtics - 15 26 25 18 - 84Boston's last lead in the game was 11-10 with 3:30 left in the first quarter. They trailed 52-41 at the half. The Celtics came as close as seven points several times in the third quarter (66-59, 69-62, 71-64), but could not cut into the Heat's lead any more than that. Miami (12-6 in this postseason) will face the Denver Nuggets (12-3) in the Finals.
On Sunday, May 21, the Miami Heat trounced the Boston Celtics by 26 points and took a 3-0 lead in the best-of-7 Eastern Conference Finals.
The Celtics will host Game 7 of that series tonight in Boston. No NBA team has ever come back from 0-3 to win a best-of-seven series. Teams are currently 0-for-150.
2023 Eastern Conference Finals
G1: Heat 123, Celtics 116
G2: Heat 111, Celtics 105
G3: Heat 128, Celtics 102
G4: Celtics 116, Heat 99
G5: Celtics 110, Heat 99
G6: Celtics 104, Heat 103
G7:
Three teams have fought back to play Game 7, but all three -- the visiting team, in each case -- lost the seventh game. The Celtics are the first 0-3 team to force a Game 7 at home.
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1951 Finals: New York Knicks lost to Rochester Royals
1994 Western Conference Semifinals: Denver Nuggets lost to Utah Jazz
2003 Western Conference First Round: Portland Trail Blazers lost to Dallas Mavericks
Only one major league baseball team has accomplished an 0-3 to 4-3 comeback. In October 2004, the Boston Red Sox lost Games 1, 2, and 3 of the ALCS to the New York Yankees, before winning Games 4, 5, 6 and 7. The Red Sox went on to sweep the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, winning their first championship in 86 years. It's a hell of a story. Since then, the Red Sox have won three additional World Series titles.
Tonight's Game 7 was made possible by Derrick White's miraculous tip-in on Saturday night in Miami. As seen below, the basketball left his fingers with fewer than one-tenth of one second remaining on the clock, and the Celtics down by one point.
It was just the second time in league history a buzzer-beater happened with a team facing elimination at the moment. The other was Michael Jordan's legendary "The Shot" in 1989 to lift the Chicago Bulls over the Cleveland Cavaliers in their first-round series.With Boston's victory Saturday night, the Celtics won their fifth road elimination game in the past two postseasons, not quite the iconic Bill Russell's 10-0 record in Game 7s, but this is Page 1 Celtics history material here. . . .
White . . . inbounded the ball to Smart and then sprinted down the sideline. When Smart launched it, White was 20 feet away, standing near the corner around the 3-point line.
By the time the ball spun out, White had somehow gotten himself to the rim. . . .
"I mean, it don't do no good to stand in the corner there," White said later . . . "Whether he makes it or not, so I just was crashing the glass, and it came right to me."
Poetry in Motion ☘️ pic.twitter.com/VaLcG9QjQg
— 𝙍𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙮 ☘️ (@CelticsRiley) May 28, 2023
Can't stop thinking about itpic.twitter.com/eBgmbMcebJ
— CelticsNation (57-25) (11/16) (@CookedByCeltics) May 29, 2023
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Damn.
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