One day after the 76ers evened the Eastern Conference semifinals at 2-2 against the Celtics with an overtime win in Game 4, Joe Mazzulla sat down for a Zoom call with the media and answered a number of questions, almost all of which related to the final play of the game.
Trailing by one with 18.2 seconds remaining after James Harden made what proved to be the game-winning 3-pointer, the Celtics failed to even get a shot off before the final buzzer sounded – a brutal result that brought to mind how the top-seeded Bucks watched their season end roughly a week ago.