Boston-Derrick White collected 34 points, including seven 3 points points, to conduct the Boston Celtics at a 127-102 victory over the New York Knicks on Wednesday evening who kept them alive in the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference.
The Celtics connected on 22 3 points – tied for the most in the history of the franchise playoffs – to publish their first home victory in the series and first without Jayson Tatum after his Achille tendon injury at the end of the season.
The Knicks will again try to win the series on Friday in New York. If the Celtics win, match 7 would be in Boston on Monday.
Jaylen Brown added 26 points and 12 assists. He became the first Celtic player to score 25 points and help 30 points in an eliminatory match in the last 30 dishes.
Luke Kornet finished with 10 points, nine rebounds and seven blocks in a huge match in small groups for the big man with Kristaps Porzingis playing only 12 minutes.
The Celtics seek to become the 14th team in the history of the NBA to return from a deficit of 3-1 in 294 attempts.
Josh Hart led the Knicks with 24 points despite leaving the match briefly at the end of the first quarter to close a bloody cut on his face after taking an inadvertent elbow.
Jalen Brunson added 22 points before encouraging 7:19 to play in the match.
Boston followed nine points in the first half, but closed the third quarter on a 23-9 race and took an advance of 91-76 in the fourth. Brunson spent the last 2:45 of the third on the bench after picking up his fifth fault.
The Celtics continued to move forward in the last period, pushing their advance up to 28 points.
The game was very physical throughout and included a brief face to face between Hart and Brown.
This energy took place offensively. The Celtics came out hot, obtaining five 3 white and 12 in total in the first 24 minutes.
But the Knicks kept up to a nine points, connecting eight 3 on their own and obtaining 10 second chance points. Mitchell Robinson also converted to his four attempts to launch franc in first half, canceling the long-intentional intentional fault strategy that Boston used on him.
At the end of half-time, the score was knotted 59-59.
The information from ESPN Research and the Associated Press was used in this report.
