It capped a Miami rally from 10 points down with less than 4 minutes remaining.ĭerrick White's #TissotBuzzerBeater sends the East Finals back to Boston □ 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. 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.īoston, however, is going home for its shot at history. 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.Ī whirlwind East Finals continues as Boston forces Game 7!
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