BOSTON -- After giving up 75 points to the Boston Celtics in the first half of Friday night's game -- the most the Celtics had scored in a first half in 15 years -- the Cleveland Cavaliers had a clear choice in front of them.
"Very easily, after the way we played in the first half," Cavaliers coach JB Bickerstaff said, "we could have sat down and got ready for [the New York Knicks] on Sunday."
The Cavaliers, though, didn't do that. Instead, they rode a pair of massive performances from their backcourt of Donovan Mitchell and Caris LeVert -- each of whom poured in 41 points -- to pull off a comeback from trailing by 13 at the break to lead Cleveland to a 132-123 overtime victory over the Celtics in front of a sellout crowd here at TD Garden.