Jayson Tatum could not have been much more open on the 3-pointer he drilled to put the Celtics up by five with 49.8 seconds left of overtime.
He caught the ball, gathered himself calmly, and swished the high-arcing shot through the bottom of the net for a clutch bucket that sent the TD Garden crowd into a frenzy.
It was the loudest of Tatum’s 45 points.
The shot gave the Celtics a bit of breathing room in a tight matchup between the teams with the top two records in the NBA that ended up being too much for regulation to settle.