BOSTON — Jayson Tatum scored 51 components – most likely probably the most in a Recreation 7 in NBA historic previous — and the Boston Celtics beat the Philadelphia 76ers 112-88 on Sunday to advance to the Japanese Convention finals for the second straight 12 months.
One recreation after missing 14 of his first 15 footage solely to awaken inside the fourth quarter, Tatum purchased off to the fast start the Celtics needed. He scored 25 inside the back-and-forth first half and 17 further in Boston’s 33-10 third quarter that turned a three-point lead proper right into a runaway.
The Celtics, who misplaced to the Golden State Warriors inside the NBA Finals last 12 months, will face the Miami Warmth inside the Japanese Convention finals, which begin on Wednesday in Boston.
Tatum broke the Recreation 7 doc that Stephen Curry set with 50 components two weeks up to now in the direction of Sacramento and added 13 rebounds.
Jaylen Brown scored 25 components for the Celtics, who rallied from a 3-2 deficit inside the best-of-seven sequence to take care of alive their hopes for an unprecedented 18th NBA championship. Tatum was subbed out of the game with three minutes left to a standing ovation from the gang, which shortly broke out in a “Beat the Warmth!” chant.
Newly topped NBA MVP Joel Embiid scored 15 components on 5-for-18 taking footage, and Tobias Harris scored 19 for Philadelphia. The Sixers misplaced inside the conference semifinals for the third straight 12 months, and the fifth time in six seasons; they haven’t gotten any farther since reaching the NBA Finals in 2001.
Tatum started 0 for six in a Recreation 5 loss and missed 14 of his first 15 footage whole from the bottom in Recreation 6 sooner than erupting for 4 3-pointers inside the final 4:14 to energy the decisive seventh recreation.
He picked up the place he left off, scoring Boston’s first basket and 11 components inside the first quarter, 14 further inside the second and outscoring the Sixers on his private, 17-10, inside the third. The 33-10 edge inside the third was most likely probably the most lopsided quarter in a Recreation 7 since a minimum of 1997.
BANGED-UP BROWN
Brown began the game with the black masks he has worn since breaking a bone in his face sooner than the All-Star break. He took it off and shortly absorbed an elbow to the face from James Harden, who was assessed a flagrant foul.
Brown continued with out the masks nonetheless accomplished the half with cotton in his left nostril. He moreover carried out with an edge, making every foul footage and following it with a steal and layup as Boston went on a 9-0 run to erase a 35-26 deficit.
Brown moreover dove into the Sixers bench to keep away from losing a ball, then had phrases with the bench after Georges Niang grabbed his leg and saved him from getting once more on the courtroom. Each avid gamers received technical fouls.
Williams adopted the commotion with a layup that tied the score 35-all.
WHAT’S UP, DOC?
Sixers coach Doc Rivers is 6-10 in seventh video video games. The ten defeats are 5 higher than one other NBA coach and three higher than the NHL’s Mike Babcock and Bruce Boudreau. His teams are 6-16 of their last 22 possibilities to close out an opponent in a playoff sequence.
“It’s an honor to maintain getting groups to those locations,” he talked about sooner than the game. “There’s folks, your mates who have a look at you want, ‘Why do you want this?’ And that is what it’s about. You set your self on the market since you wish to win. And when you do this it’s a must to put your self in these conditions over and again and again. And it’s price it. It’s price it. And that’s what I inform my guys.”
TIP-INS
Tatum is the sixth participant since 1997 to achieve 25 components or further inside the first half of a seventh recreation. The ultimate was Luka Doncic, who had 29 in the direction of the Clippers inside the first spherical of the 2021 playoffs. Paul Pierce scored 26 for the Celtics in the direction of Cleveland inside the second spherical in 2008. … The ten components Philadelphia scored have been tied for the fewest in any Recreation 7 quarter inside the shot clock interval.
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