(Field Level Media) BOSTON — Jayson Tatum recorded 31 points and 11 assists as the Boston Celtics locked up their league-record 18th championship...
Vous n'êtes pas connecté
After three straight wins, the Boston Celtics will look to close out the 2024 NBA Finals against the Dallas Mavericks when the best-of-seven series returns to Dallas on Friday night. Coming off of a 106-99 victory on Wednesday night, they realize the historic moment in front of them and another shot at the Larry O’Brien Trophy, which slipped away two years ago. All-Stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown led the Mavs in Game 3 with 61 points combined, but they both know that the job is not done yet. “We are just saying, however long it takes. Nobody is relaxed. Nobody is satisfied,” Tatum said after the game. For Brown, Wednesday night’s win was about the experience. “All year long we've been hearing about the Celtics are the past, for the last six to eight months, that's all we've been hearing is all the different shortcomings we've had in the past. This is a new team, you know what I mean. We've learned from those experiences. And in these moments, you can see that we learned from it. We stepped up to the plate, and we found a way to win.” he said. Overall, five Celtics players have scored in double-digits in each game of this series. Tatum and Jrue Holiday have led on the boards as well (8.7 and 7.7 rebounds per game, respectively), which shows the depth of the team that had the best regular season in the NBA (64-18) and has lost only twice in the playoffs so far. The Celtics were without Kristaps Porzingis,who was one of their key contributors in Games 1 and 2, but was sidelined on Wednesday due to left leg injury. Meanwhile, after two losses in Boston, the Mavs, down 21 points, caught fire in the fourth and exploded to a 22-2 run down the stretch, ultimately coming up short in the closing seconds of Game 3. Five-time NBA All-Star Luka Doncic (29.7 points and nine rebounds per game in this series) fouled out with just over four minutes left. Eight-time NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving finally found his rhythm, finishing with 35 points, but it was not enough to turn the Mavs’ fortunes around. The third straight loss leaves the Mavericks on the brink of elimination, though they will hope to become the first team in NBA history to come back after trailing 0-3 in a best-of-seven series. When asked about how the Celtics are clamping down the Mavericks on the perimeter, Irving said: “They're going to make adjustments. They know how much of our offense over the playoff run has been predicated on getting easy looks for our bigs. They've been taking it away, putting guards on the bigs, not really helping off of them. A lot of one-on-one defense. It's about us finishing and hopefully that creates some space where we can throw a lob.” Game 4 of the 2024 NBA Finals will air live on ESPN and NBA League Pass at 1:30 a.m. WAT in the early hours of Saturday morning. More than 3,000 fans will gather to watch the game at NBA Finals watch parties in Lagos, Johannesburg, Durban andNairobi. Will they witness the Celtics’ celebrations, or will the Mavs send the series back to Boston for Game 5? Doncic believes everything is still possible: “We're not in the offseason yet. They've still got to win one more game. Like I said, we're going to believe until the end.” Photo Jayson Tatum (0) of the Boston Celtics lurks while Dallas Mavericks' Kyrie Irving (11) stays on guard in the fourth quarter in Game 3 of the 2024 NBA Finals at American Airlines Center on June 12, 2024 in Dallas, Texas Credit: NBAE/Getty Image The post Celtics One Win Away From Historic 18th NBA Championship appeared first on Complete Sports.
(Field Level Media) BOSTON — Jayson Tatum recorded 31 points and 11 assists as the Boston Celtics locked up their league-record 18th championship...
Irving gets to the hoop in Game 4. (Peter Casey/USA TODAY Sports/Reuters via CNN Newsource) By Samuel Joseph, CNN (CNN) — The Boston...
Boston Celtics outclassed Dallas Mavericks 106-88 to clinch a record-breaking 18th NBA championship crown on Monday. After suffering a humbling by...
The Boston Celtics beat the Dallas Mavericks 4-1 in the NBA Finals to win their first championship since 2008.
Resigned to the villain’s role in Boston, Dallas star Kyrie Irving is less concerned with silencing hostile Celtics fans than with quieting self...
Celtics were in commanding form against Dallas as they wrapped up a 4-1 series win
The Boston Celtics beat the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 on Monday night to claim
THE Boston Celtics secured a record 18th championship as they beat the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 to complete a 4-1 series victory in the NBA Finals....
If any player knows how badly the Boston Celtics want to close out the Mavericks in Game 5 of the NBA finals on Monday night, it’s Kyrie Irving.
Kyrie Irving is a year away from having the option to leave the Dallas Mavericks, and at that point would be closing in on his longest stint anywhere...