Last time the Boston Celtics and Oklahoma City Thunder met, the Cs pulled off an improbable comeback W on OKC’s home floor. This time…would not be as interesting, right? With Kyrie Irving still out from knee soreness (along with Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart and Daniel Theis) and unable to duel Russell Westbrook?
WRONG. The Celtics took punches and made a few mistakes but never fell out of this game, and pounced on an incredible Thunder collapse in the game’s final 30 seconds to win their 48th game of the season on a Marcus Morris buzzer-beater, 100-99.
THE GAME FLOW
“Maybe Carmelo will shoot them out of it.