So much for those who believed A: the Celtics don’t have an offensive prayer in this series without Isaiah Thomas, and B: that they want no part of a foot race with Washington.
The Celtics nailed down Game 5 of their Eastern Conference semifinals series against the Wizards with a 123-101 win Wednesday, taking a 3-2 edge and holding serve. The home team has won every game in this matchup, including all four regular season games. Game 6 in Friday night in Washington.
And this time Thomas had someone to take control of the scoring, courtesy of a career playoff high 29 points from Avery Bradley, who crammed 25 of those points into the first half.