This is the digital version of The Bounce.If you want it earlier, start every day with The Bounce delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Nikola Jokić has just been riding horses and awaiting his next victim for the NBA Finals. Good luck to Bam Adebayo and Co. Miami Maintains Status Quos Heat avoid historic collapse …
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BOSTON — This could have been one of the best nights of this century for the Celtics organization. It ended with Grant Williams lugging some belongings out of the locker room in a trash bag, Jayson Tatum limping to the podium on a sprained ankle and Jaylen Brown blaming himself for a Game 7 loss. …
BOSTON — The cheering was as advertised when the Celtics stepped onto the parquet Monday night for pregame warmups, none of it directed at any one player. Not yet. But then Derrick White appeared on the flat screens that are suspended high above center court at TD Garden, and suddenly the cheering got even louder, …
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BOSTON — After everything they did to get to this point, the Celtics suddenly had the rug pulled from under them. On the first play of Game 7, Jayson Tatum sprained his ankle landing on Gabe Vincent’s foot, and was simply never the same. Vincent was sliding across the floor and was just a fraction …
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A 10-year-old cancer survivor from Massachusetts is hoping to see the Boston Celtics win another Game 7 during their current playoff run, this time with a spot in the NBA Finals at stake.Xavier Goncalves, of Raynham, will be watching the Celtics take on the Miami Heat at TD Garden Monday night as Boston looks to …
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Celtics key reserve Malcolm Brogdon is available for Monday’s decisive Eastern Conference finals Game 7 against the Miami Heat, a team source told The Athletic. Here’s what you need to know: The NBA Sixth Man of the Year missed Game 6 with a right forearm strain. Brogdon scored just two points on 13 shots in …
With a Game 7 in Boston upon us, the history of what’s at stake is front of mind. Miami led the Eastern Conference Finals 3-0, but it’s now 3-3. Only three teams have been down 0-3 while losing the first two at home — the 2010 Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference Finals against the …
MIAMI — The Boston Celtics are on the precipice of pulling off the impossible. It’s not so improbable because no team has ever come back from being down 3-0 before. The shock is how after this team had lost its identity early in the series, it has snapped back into place at full form. How …
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MIAMI — At the moment Derrick White’s buzzer-beating layup fell through the basket, his father, Richard, could not celebrate yet. The officials still needed to rule whether the putback bucket would count. Few reviews have ever weighed more. If the referees waved off the basket, Boston’s season would end in a crushing fourth-quarter collapse. If …
