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Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz is in attendance at Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat on Friday night.

- SHOULD THE BUCKS MAKE A TRADE? On Sunday afternoon, the Milwaukee Bucks lost Game 7 to the Boston Celtics, which officially ends their 2021-22 NBA season in the second-round. Last season, they won the NBA Championship, and they will now enter an offseason where they can look to improve the roster to get back to the NBA Finals.CLICK HERE. The ultimate winner of the series will move on to the NBA finals to square off with the Golden State Warriors for the title.

The Miami Heat are one quarter away from solidifying a big victory for the organization. They currently hold an 82-78 lead over the Boston Celtics.

- Dec 04, 2019 - Boston 112 vs. - Jan 28, 2020 - Boston 109 vs. - Sep 17, 2020 - Miami 106 vs. - Sep 19, 2020 - Boston 117 vs. Boston is now 3-2 while the Heat sit at a mirror-image 2-3. - Sep 23, 2020 - Miami 112 vs. Boston is the favorite in this one, with an expected 8.5-point margin of victory. - Sep 25, 2020 - Boston 121 vs. - May 23, 2022 - Boston 102 vs. They currently hold an 82-78 lead over the Boston Celtics. Boston's power forward Al Horford filled up the stat sheet, picking up 16 points and five assists along with seven rebounds. One thing to keep an eye out for is P.J. Tucker's foul situation as he currently sits at four.

It happened again. The Boston Celtics let a Game 6 of the conference finals, in their building, slip away to the Miami Heat and a guy named “James.” There will ...

If so, for how long do their coaches dare to keep them out? The Heat have hit so many silencers tonight. In a consistent defensive stance. Jimmy Butler. On a hurt knee. Brutal execution from Boston at the end. He suggested that Jimmy Butler needed to channel his inner "Heatles" LeBron James if the Heat wanted to win Game 6 in Boston and play a Game 7 in Miami. Butler finished with 47 points (a career playoff high), nine rebounds, eight assists and four steals. •3h ago That guarantees the Warriors three more days of between series rest than their Finals opponent. •3h ago Jimmy Butler on ESPN: "I got a phone call and text message from D Wade earlier today and he was telling me I can do this. •3h ago •3h ago

A struggling Jimmy Butler strung together three poor outings at a very bad time but made up for his struggles in a big way on Friday night.

Boston hit 44.4 percent of its shots and was 11 of 33 from behind the arc. Miami was 24 of 25 from the free-throw line. So we have to find a way to win." Tucker made three of four free throws during a 20-second span to make it a six-point margin with 1:25 left. "Our backs are on the wall," Brown said. "We didn't contest and get out on shooters as well as we should have. "Everybody thought the series was already over," Adebayo said. "I just have to remember that every time I take the floor." Butler was aggressive, and we didn't match his intensity." Miami guard Tyler Herro (groin) missed his third straight game. "I let my team down a couple of games," Butler said. Shooting 10 of 40 from the field in a three-game span hurt just as much.

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Elgin Baylor had 61 against Boston in Game 5 of the 1962 finals. Jayson Tatum had 30 points and nine rebounds for Boston, and White came off the bench to score 11 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter. Jaylen Brown scored 20 points for Boston, missing a pair of free throws with the game tied at 99 after Lowry fouled out. “He came out from the jump and kind of put his imprint on the game," White said. Lowry answered with a 3 and then added two free throws as Miami scored 11 of the next 13 points. I’ve played with some great players, and he’s one of the best.”

If the Celtics are going to win Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals in Miami, they need a more aggressive and assertive offensive showing from Jayson ...

I think it was just kind of how the flow of the game was going." "I think it's just the flow of the game, how the game was going," Tatum said. They need to play with that aggressive mentality in Game 7 or the Celtics' season could come to a very disappointing finish. Tatum and Brown combined for only one shot attempt over the final 4:43 of the game -- a Tatum floater that cut Miami's lead to 105-101 with 1:08 remaining. Instead, the Heat finished the game on a 17-6 run to secure a 111-103 win and stave off elimination. It seemed like the Celtics, after trailing for most of the night, were finally going to pull away and celebrate a conference title.

David Ortiz and Pedro Martinez were in the building to watch the Boston Celtics try to punch their ticket to the NBA Finals in Friday's Game 6 vs. the Miami ...

The legendary Red Sox duo joins a long list of celebrities who have watched the Celtics-Heat Eastern Conference Finals series at TD Garden. Several members of the New England Patriots have been in attendance along with C's head coach Ime Udoka's wife, actress Nia Long, LL Cool J, and many more. David Ortiz and Pedro Martinez sat courtside to watch the C's try to punch their ticket to the NBA Finals. Big Papi was shown on the jumbotron and got a rousing ovation from the Garden crowd.

Udonis Haslem and PJ Tucker had messages for Draymond Green after they beat the Celtics to force a winner-take-all Game 7.

"If you're asking me who I want to play, I'm going to tell you who I think we're going to play," Green said. “He wants a message to be relayed," Jackson said. "We're going to play Boston. That's who we're going to play."

Following a frustrating loss at home to the Miami Heat in Game 6, how confident is Jayson Tatum feeling ahead of Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals?

Tatum has almost always bounced back from his middling to poor performances this postseason, just as the Celtics have themselves. As for Tatum himself, his stat line was solid enough in Game 6, with 30 points on 9 of 12 shooting, nine rebounds and four assists. Ten," Tatum said at his postgame press conference.

The Miami Heat defeated the Boston Celtics 111-103 on the road in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Friday to force a decisive Game 7 with a ticket ...

Of course, you have to credit the Heat and their defensive efforts in their three wins, but a lot of Boston’s carelessness is because they are trying to rush things. While he may only be playing on one healthy leg, every positive minute Kyle Lowry can give the Heat in Game 7 is going to go a long way in them possibly making the NBA Finals this year. Defensively, the Heat really dug deep in Game 6 and it seemed like every time the Celtics would go on a little bit of a run, Miami would have an answer for them. Looking back on Game 6 though, there is a lot to talk about before the final game of this series. "I gotta play better, I'm playing terrible," Lowry said following the Heat's loss in Game 5. Scoring a playoff career-high 47 points on Friday night, Jimmy Butler was able to fight through a lingering knee injury to carry his team to a win while facing elimination.

The No. 2 seed Boston Celtics and No. 1 seed Miami Heat face off on Sunday at FTX Arena in Miami in Game 7 of their NBA Playoffs series.

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Celtics head coach Ime Udoka says Boston must get off to a faster start against the Miami Heat and cannot 'give them life early' in Game 7 on Sunday.

It would be hard to have imagined a scenario four months ago where the Celtics would be playing now -- let alone playing in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals. We have confidence in going down there winning, too, but we have to get ourselves off to better starts, get ourselves easy baskets and not give them life early in the game." But at the same time, they are our scorers, they're our leading scorers, and obviously in the fourth quarter, we need them to bring it home. "Obviously, early in the game if they're going after them, we encourage them to get off the ball and the defense will kind of break down and open up for them later in the game," Udoka said. After again committing several careless turnovers in the opening moments of Game 6 and falling into a 12-5 hole, they essentially spent the game attempting to dig themselves out of it. Even in these playoffs, it hasn't been easy ... a lot of that is due to what we're doing, and we can be better, for sure.

Boston Celtics vs. Miami HEAT Sunday, May 29 @ 8:30 PM Series Record: 3-3.

A huge portion of the game was decided by the HEAT winning the turnover battle, 23-8, and taking 22 more shots than their opponent, but this was a battle of the mind more than anything. The HEAT ramped up the physicality on defense, found just enough shotmaking – Max Strus and Adebayo each hit a massive jumper after Boston closed to within one – and responded to one momentum-building one after another. Instead what we’re getting is a series where both defenses have indeed been great, but each game has seen one team lead by at least 20 – Boston’s near-comeback in Game 3 was the only real pushback we’ve seen from a big hole – because as soon as one defense gets rolling then the other team starts to struggle even more having to attack in the halfcourt, and the more that team misses the more the other side can try to push the pace. In other words, precisely because the defense is so good and both teams have some inherent struggles in the halfcourt, we’re more likely than usual to see one run get extended as the other side is pushed more and more onto their heels. And in the end, that opening salvo offered a large enough lead to put Miami up 2-1 in the series. In winning the opening period, 39-18, the HEAT had just about as immaculate a start to a postseason game as you can possibly have. Both teams are going to come out of this one with plenty to like – Boston wound up winning three of the four quarters – and if you came into this game expecting a long series there wasn’t much on hand to dissuade you of that notion. With Kyle Lowry back, his effect on the pace of the offense, both in the open floor and in the halfcourt, was immediately evident as he pushed into a trail three for Max Strus and followed that up a few possessions later with his traditional hit-ahead pass to Jimmy Butler. But apart from Lowry and some hot three-point shooting, the real boost to the offense was Bam Adebayo scoring about as well as he has ever scored. And as usual – after Boston made a run with Butler off the court – he was there to bring it home down the stretch as he hunted the Payton Pritchard matchup relentlessly, holding the Celtics off with free-throws and jumpers. Boston was up by as much as they were up – 34 at the largest lead, but consistently over after their major runs – because they were hitting just about everything. Just as quick as Game 1 turned after the break when the HEAT rediscovered their own identity playing physical and precise defense and letting that effort power their offense, this time Boston was the team finding itself. He wasn’t alone in doing so, but there’s a level of pressure that Butler can apply to your offense that makes every pass carry just a little more inherent risk to it – an effect that played a major role as the HEAT’s defense fed their offense over and over and over again in the third quarter.

The Miami Heat are still alive. After falling behind 3-2 to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals, the Heat pulled out an impressive win in ...

In Game 6 they had 17 turnovers that led to 23 points for the Heat. In their Game 3 loss, they had a whopping 24 turnovers and in their Game 1 loss they had 16. Celtics: If they want to advance to the Finals, the Celtics simply have to do a better job of taking care of the ball. Here's everything you need to know about the seventh game between Miami and Boston. In Game 6, the Heat showed a collective ability to bounce back, as did several key contributors on their roster. After scoring 27 total points in Games 3, 4 and 5, Jimmy Butler willed the Heat to victory with a playoff career-high 47 points in Game 6. The Miami Heat are still alive.

Superstar players, wild swings in momentum and nagging concerns all come under the withering glare of the Game 7 spotlight.

In the third quarter on Sunday, both Butler ( on a drive) and Victor Oladipo ( with a step-back 3) were able to score against Williams in isolation. Both Smart (right ankle) and Robert Williams III (left knee) are listed as questionable for Boston. Both played in Game 6, though Williams didn’t play in the fourth quarter. In their three wins, the Heat are 21-for-49 (43%) in the last six seconds of the shot clock. The Heat have allowed more than 122 points per 100 possessions with him on the floor in this series, and he hasn’t been able to make up for it with his offense, shooting 1-for-14 from 3-point range in the three games he’s played. And the Celtics scored 57 points on 47 possessions (1.21 per) in the second half of Game 6, so it’s not like the Heat’s extra-aggressive defense was super effective. In Game 3 (which they won by six points), the Heat made three tough shots at the shot-clock buzzer… And, instead of staying in front of the ball, White committed a transition foul with the Heat in the bonus. The Celtics erased a nine-point, fourth-quarter deficit in Game 6 on Friday and took a three-point lead. It was about a Heat defense that wasn’t going to allow the great players to make great plays. This will be the 35th Game 7 in franchise history, but only the eighth that Boston has played on the road. Home teams are 108-32 (.771) in Game 7s, a record that doesn’t include the four Game 7s that took place in the 2020 bubble. Of course, Game 7s from 10 or 20 years ago have little to do with the one that will be played Sunday night.

The Celtics had a trip to the NBA Finals on the line Friday night, but a combination of factors have them facing the reality of needing to win in Miami a ...

It's a 10 out of 10 in my confidence level and the group. Williams changed the energy of the game in the third quarter while leading a single-big lineup with Horford hindered by foul trouble. Little has come easy for the Celtics this season but they’ve always found a way. It’s undeniably hard to pull someone like Smart or Horford off the court in crunch time but it felt like Williams should have been out there. He finished with just three assists over 40 minutes, 25 seconds of floor time and wasn’t his usual impactful self on the defensive end (the Heat were 9-of-15 shooting for an eye-popping (and team-worst) 26 points against Smart, per the NBA’s defensive tracking data. The Heat scored 17 points against him (second highest on the team behind Smart) on 7-of-16 shooting. He spent the rest of the night hitting momentum-sapping buckets -- most seemingly of the and-1 variety -- every single time the Celtics made a charge. The Garden spent the four quarter waiting to blow the roof off the place and Brown’s misses and Butler’s immediate bucket absolutely silenced the room. Some Celtics fans will lament the calls that went against Boston. The referees, after swallowing their whistles early, made themselves a storyline in the second half. Boston needed a last-second layup from Jayson Tatum to steal Game 1 against the Nets that lit their fuse for a first-round sweep that still required them to sweat out a bunch of crunch-time moments. Boston is literally limping to the finish line in an ultra-physical series against Miami in which there has not been more than a day’s rest between games. Despite Butler’s efforts, the Celtics still had every opportunity to end this series.

MIAMI -- — Erik Spoelstra didn't even have to finish the sentence. The Miami Heat coach was speaking in the locker room after a season-extending win in ...

Miami has two players who have scored at least 30 points in a Game 7. “We’ve just got to come out and play, come out and respond,” Brown said. “There’s nothing like a Game 7,” Spoelstra said. We’ve got to come out and find a way to win.” This is their fifth trip to the East finals since, and Friday’s loss made them 0-5 in potential East clinchers over that span. It’s living in the moment, trying to just do what you can.” “For us, it’s just another opportunity,” Celtics coach Ime Udoka said Saturday. “You put yourself in this position, going up 3-2, to have two games to win one. For Boston, Marcus Smart’s ankle has been balky, Robert Williams III’s knee is an ongoing question and Jaylen Brown banged a knee on a drive in Game 5 though finished the game with no obvious ill effects. Butler has been dealing with knee issues and twisted an ankle late in Game 6 though still came through with arguably the best game of his career. Miami has the home-court advantage for the finale, though home court has meant nothing in this series. “I’m sure they got a bunch of guys, too, just trying to figure it out and give what they can. MIAMI -- — Erik Spoelstra didn’t even have to finish the sentence.

Our experts give their best betting tips ahead of Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals between the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat.

Outside of the third quarter of Game 1 and the first quarter of Game 3, the Celtics have outscored the Heat by 87 points. Brown (26.5%) has the second-highest usage rate on the team behind Tatum (30%) this postseason and should continue to exploit his matchups on the court. The Celtics have outscored the Heat in 15 of the 20 quarters the two teams have played over the last five games of the series. The Celtics played very well in closeout games this postseason, sweeping the Nets in Brooklyn and winning two straight games over the Bucks to advance to the Eastern Conference finals. The Heat are dealing with several injuries and are on the ropes. Tatum has gone over 39.5 PAR in six of his last nine games. They have been the dominant team for the majority of the series. Notable: This season, teams favored by more than five points with an over/under less than 210 have won just over 68% of the time. He played 27 minutes and had 6 points and 10 rebounds. Best bet: Celtics 2H (-3.5). The Heat are running on fumes and dealing with a myriad of injuries at the moment. Finding creation: Derrick White has averaged 5.5 assists and 11.5 potential assists over the past two games. Miami should rely heavily on Adebayo early and often in this must-win Game 6.

The Celtics star shared his confidence level in his team for Game 7 as the series shifts back to Miami.

Butler finished with a game-high 47 points, showing he’s every bit of the superstar that the Heat expect him to be. It’s a 10 out of 10 in my confidence level and the group,” Tatum said. Turnovers once again plagued the Celtics on Friday night.