The Celtics’ season isn’t on the line yet, but it will certainly feel like it is in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals.
Boston lost Game 2 to the Miami Heat, putting it in an 0-2 hole as it dropped both games on its homecourt to start the series.
Historically speaking, teams to go down 0-2 in a series have gone on to lose the series at a high rate as such teams have only come back to win the series just 7.4 percent of the time. There have only been five times in NBA history where the higher-seeded team lost the first two games and came back to win the series, too.