Cavaliers forward Jeff Green stepped up to the challenge Sunday night.
With All-Star Kevin Love ruled out with concussion-like symptoms, coach Tyronn Lue gave Green — who played three and a half seasons in Boston — the starting nod for Game 7 of the conference finals against his former team.
Green, who had a relatively quiet series leading up to Cleveland’s two elimination games, scored 19 points on 7-of-14 shooting and grabbed eight rebounds to help lift the Cavs to an 87-79 victory over the Celtics Sunday. Green had logged just 22 combined points and 13 combined boards in the first five games of the series.