2023-05-28 19:17:06
Boston Celtics and Miami Heat will define this Monday the Eastern Conference championin the seventh and decisive game of the exciting series, while the Denver Nuggets wait in the NBA Grand Final.
The game is played in Boston from 9:30 p.m. televised by Star +.
The Celtics, who started 0-3 down the Eastern definition, were a tenth of a second from elimination. Miami was finally on the verge of advancing to the NBA Finals. But Derrick White changed everything with a slap. He grabbed a rebound and in the same jump he hit a basket at the end of the game as Boston was left with the agonizing victory in Miami 104-103, tied the series 3-3 and placed one win away from achieving the biggest comeback in the league. NBA history.
“He came like a bolt from who knows where and saved the day,” Jaylen Brown, one of Boston’s stars, said of White’s double win. The player knew that he had converted on time. The referees reviewed the video, but it didn’t take long to make the Celtics’ score and victory official.
While the celebration was jubilant in Boston, in Miami it was devastation.
“I’m just glad we won at all costs,” White said. “The ball came to me and I made the shot,” he added. Maybe Boston will end up calling the play just like that, like “the shot.”
White is the second player in NBA history to beat the buzzer when his team was on the brink of elimination. The other was Michael Jordan, with “the Shot” against Cleveland in 1989.
“I’m happy. The campaign was over. We didn’t want to go home eliminated,” White remarked.
Jayson Tatum scored 31 points, Brown added 26 and Marcus Smart finished with 21 for the Celtics, who are just the fourth team to erase a 3-0 deficit in a seven-game series in NBA history to force a duel. decisive. The other teams that are part of that elite are the New York Knicks in 1951, in the NBA Finals, the Denver Nuggets in 1994, in the second round, the 2003 Portland Trail Blazers in the first round. But all those teams lost the seventh game, away.
The Celtics, on the other hand, go to Boston for their date with history. The seventh game is scheduled for this Monday and will define the champion of the Eastern Conference, and will be measured against the Nuggets in the great definition. The Finals begin on Thursday.
“It’s a seven-game series,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “There’s nothing better than Game 7,” he added.
Jimmy Butler made three free throws with three seconds remaining, giving the Heat a one-point lead and capping a reaction from Miami, which trailed by 10 points with less than 4 minutes to go.
The Celtics arranged for White to take the snap. He passed the ball to Smart, who missed the 3-pointer, making it seem like the game and the series were over. White, next to the rim, slapped the ball just as time ran out.
“These guys just showed resistance,” Boston coach Joe Mazzulla said. “That was it”. Mazzulla was asked what was going through his mind at that moment: “Nothing”. “The seventh game,” he concluded.
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