Eastern Conference finals Most Valuable Player Jimmy Butler scored 28 points, and Caleb Martin had 26 points and 10 rebounds to help the eighth-seeded Miami Heat beat the Celtics 103-84 in Game 7 on Monday night and advance to the NBA Finals for the second time in four seasons.
A year after losing a seventh game to Boston, the Heat recovered from blowing a 3-0 lead in the series and advanced to face the Western Conference champion Nuggets."We stayed together as a group. As a team, we talked about going and getting a tough one on the road. We did just that," Butler said. "But we're not satisfied. We're excited. We're happy. But we've got one more to get.
They put Boston in a 3-0 hole -- a deficit no NBA team has ever come back from. Three losses later, Miami was on the brink of the worst kind of history. Jayson Tatum, who scored a Game 7 record 51 points against Philadelphia in the conference semis, had 14 points with 11 rebounds after turning his ankle on the first play of the game and limping through 42 minutes.
But the Celtics hyped themselves up by watching a documentary on the Boston Red Sox comeback from a 3-0 deficit against the New York Yankees on their way to the 2004 World Series. When the Celtics took the floor for Game 4 in Miami, ex-Yankees Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter were sitting courtside.
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