The Heat are the 151st team to grab a 3-0 series lead in a best-of-seven. There’s been nothing easy about this season for our group, and so we just have to do it the hard way.” “And that’s what the next 48 hours is about. “I don’t know how we’re going to get this done, but we’re going to go out there and get it done,” Spoelstra said. At least this time, Miami still has a chance. That one, obviously, ended the Heat season. The Celtics have now won five of their last six East finals games in Miami - a stretch that includes a Game 7 over the Heat last season to reach the NBA Finals. “But we’ve got a special group.” Derrick White (left) scores the game-winning buzzer-beating win to lead the Celtics to victory and force Game 7. “We’ve got to go on the road and do something special,” Butler said. 5 New York and taking what was supposed to be an insurmountable 3-0 lead over the second-seeded Celtics. They’ve now lost as many games this week - three - as they had in their first 14 playoff games this spring combined on the way to ousting No. There had been other buzzer-beaters from players whose teams were facing an elimination game, but before Saturday, only Jordan’s came with his team trailing.Ĭeltics coach Joe Mazzulla was asked what went through his mind at that moment.īutler scored 24 points and Caleb Martin had 21 for the Heat, who are trying to pull off their own improbable trek to the title series by being only the second No. Jimmy Butler, who scored 24 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, goes up for a shot as Jayson Tatum defends during the Heat’s Game 6 loss. The Celtics had White inbound the ball on the game’s final possession, and he passed to Smart - who missed a 3-pointer.īut White sprinted from the inbound spot to the rim, the ball fell into his hands and he got the lay-in away just before time ran out to extend Boston’s season. It capped a Miami rally from 10 points down with less than 4 minutes remaining. Jimmy Butler made three free throws with 3.0 seconds left - the foul was originally called with 2.1 seconds left referees put 0.9 seconds back on after reviewing the play to see if it was a 3-point try that Al Horford fouled him on - for a one-point Heat lead. “It’s a seven-game series,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. Game 7 is Monday night on the Celtics’ floor, a matchup that’ll decide who meets the Western Conference champion Denver Nuggets in a title series that will start Thursday. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Conīoston, however, is going home for its shot at history. Derrick White is embraced by Jaylen Brown after hitting the game-winning tip-in at the buzzer to give the Celtics a 104-103 win over the Heat in Game 6 to force a Game 7. The others in that club - the 1951 New York Knicks in the NBA Finals, the 1994 Denver Nuggets in the second round and the 2003 Portland Trail Blazers in the first round - all lost Game 7, all on the road. ![]() Jayson Tatum scored 31 points, Brown scored 26 and Marcus Smart added 21 for the Celtics, who became only the fourth NBA team to erase a 3-0 deficit in a best-of-seven series and force a deciding game. White became the second player in NBA history to hit a buzzer-beater with his team trailing and facing elimination - Michael Jordan’s “The Shot” for Chicago against Cleveland in 1989 being the other. “I made the shot.” Derrick White scores on a putback at the buzzer to lead the Celtics to a 104-103 win over the Heat in Game 6 in Miami, forcing a Game 7 Monday night in Boston. Referees reviewed it, but it didn’t take long to give the official word.Įlation for Boston. “Derrick White, like a flash of lightning, just came out of nowhere and saved the day, man,” Boston’s Jaylen Brown said. White scored on a putback as time expired and the Boston Celtics moved to the brink of the greatest comeback in NBA playoffs history, holding off the Miami Heat 104-103 on Saturday night to force a Game 7 in the Eastern Conference finals. The Miami Heat were a tenth of a second from the NBA Finals. MIAMI - The Boston Celtics were a tenth of a second away from elimination. Jimmy Butler ‘hella proud’ of Heat with rumors spreading after NBA Finals run Knicks forward, Tom Thibodeau had ‘intense’ altercation after playoff lossĬonor McGregor rape accuser claims she was offered $100K in hush money Knicks star posts recovery workout video after surgery in June
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