And then tonight I think we took a step backward. I thought we took another step this season. "We played great all year and this loss absolutely diminishes what we did this year in some way. I really did," said Sixers coach Doc Rivers, who was on the Boston bench when the Celtics won it all in 2008. The Sixers lost in the conference semifinals for the third straight year, and the fifth time in six seasons they have not gotten any farther since reaching the NBA Finals in 2001 despite "The Process" - tanking their way to four top-three draft picks in a row, including Embiid. Newly crowned NBA MVP Joel Embiid scored 15 points on 5-for-18 shooting, and Tobias Harris scored 19 for Philadelphia. "As a competitor, I love the opportunity." "It's the best time of the year," Tatum said. "It definitely was on my mind that I had played as bad as it could get, for 43 minutes. Our season could have been over after Game 6," said Tatum, who broke the Game 7 record of 50 points Stephen Curry set two weeks ago. ![]() "I was relieved just to get another chance. The Celtics, who lost to the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals last year, will face the Miami Heat in the East finals for the second straight season. One game after missing 14 of his first 15 shots only to awaken in the fourth quarter in time to save their season, Tatum scored 25 in the back-and-forth first half and 17 more in Boston's 33-10 third quarter that turned a three-point lead into a runaway. ![]() NBA Finals - Game 7: Heat at Nuggets, 8 p.m.BOSTON (AP) - Jayson Tatum gave Boston a long-overdue fast start and followed it up with a finish the NBA had never seen before.Īfter struggling in back-to-back games, Tatum erupted for 51 points – the most in a Game 7 in history - and the Celtics beat the Philadelphia 76ers 112-88 on Sunday to advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the second straight year.NBA Finals - Game 6: Nuggets at Heat, 8:30 p.m., ABC (if necessary).NBA Finals - Game 5: Heat at Nuggets, 8:30 p.m., ABC.He also tied Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson by racking up those 12 assists without turning the ball over.īelow is the daily playoff schedule as well as the previous results, the playoff bracket, dates, times and TV/streaming info. Nikola Jokic was in foul trouble and Jamal Murray had an off-night shooting, but he did have another 12 assists, making him the league's only player to have four double-digit assists outings in his first four NBA Finals games. Aaron Gordon turned out to be one of the Nuggets' heroes in Game 4 as he scored a game-high 27 points on 11-of-15 shooting to go along with seven rebounds and six assists. ![]() The Nuggets' 108-95 win in Miami Friday night puts them a win away from the franchise's first NBA title, which they can claim at home in Game 5 Monday night. In being on the wrong end of the stat in the made 3s category - by a count of 14 to 8 - Miami just couldn't match Denver's firepower and now finds itself down 3-1 in the race to four wins. That's not to say that the Heat would've won the game had they matched the Denver Nuggets' long distance proficiency, but the fact remains that the Western Conference champs knocked down 50% of their 3-pointers. And on Friday night it was the latter for the Miami Heat who shot a combined 32% from 3.
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