Derrick White had 34 points, including seven triples, to lead the Boston Celtics to a victory of the 57-102 game over the New York Knicks on Wednesday night in the semifinals of the East Conference.
The Celtics connected in 22 triples to publish their first victory in the series of the series and first without Jayson Tatum after their tendon injury in the season.
The Knicks will try again to win the series on Friday in New York. If the Celtics win, game 7 would be in Boston on Monday.
Jaylen Brown added 26 points and 12 assists. Luke Kornet finished with 10 points, nine rebounds and seven blocks.
The Celtics seek to become the 14th team in the history of the NBA to return from a 3-1 deficit in 294 attempts.
Josh Hart led the Knicks with 24 points despite the fact that Letter left the game at the end of the first quarter to close a damn wound on his face after touching an inadvertent elbow.
Jalen Brunson added 22 points before dirtying with 7:19 to play in the game.
Boston lost for nine points in the first half, but closed the third quarter in a 23-9 race and tok an advantage of 91-76 in the fourth. Brunson spent the 2:45 finals of the third in the bank after collecting his fifth foul.
The Celtics kept him in the final period, which pushed his leadership up to 28 points.
The game was highly physical through at the same time and included a scaler -face to face between Heart and Brown.
That energy was offensively. The Celtics came out hot, obtaining five 3 white and 12 in total in the first 24 minutes.
But the Knicks hero as much as an advantage of nine points, which connects at eight 3 and obtaining 10 second quamanza points. Mitchell Robinson also became his four free throw attempts in the first half, annulling the intentional lack of the entire series that Boston used in him.
When half ended, the score was knotted 59-ALL.
Associated Press reports.
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