

there was no way the Celtics could lose to the 41-41 Hawks a second time. In this spirit, we saw Masataka Yoshida rounding the bases in the Sox’ 12-5 romp at the exact moment that Jake DeBrusk potted a power-play goal to give the Bruins a 2-0 Game 4 lead over the Panthers.Īnd as we all knew. Fortunately, through the magic of live streaming, hardcore New Englanders were able to monitor the progress of Boston teams playing in Florida and Milwaukee.
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Trust me when I tell you that none of the TVs in the Atlanta press room were tuned into the B’s or Red Sox when the Hawks and Celtics were getting taped for Sunday’s early evening joust (lucky this wasn’t Georgia’s spring football scrimmage or we’d have had no TV access to NBA action either). Robert Williams and Malcolm Brogdon surround Atlanta's John Collins in the fourth quarter of Sunday's win. The Time Lord was a backboard-eating force at both ends, snatching 15 rebounds and blocking two shots to go along with his 13 points. The Jays (Tatum and Brown) submitted bookend 31-point efforts and were fortified by a monstrous 29 minutes off the bench from Robert Williams III.

We just have to suck it up like we did tonight.’’ “We knew it wasn’t going to be easy,’’ Jayson Tatum told NBC Sports Boston. The Celtics’ biggest lead Sunday was a mere 14 points, but it never felt like the Hawks could really threaten. Atlanta’s last lead was in the fourth minute (11-9), which means the Hawks have not led for a single second of the final three quarters in three of the four games of the series.īoston led by 32 in Game 1, by 22 in Game 2, and by 9 in Friday’s Game 3 loss in Atlanta. The sons of Danny Ainge and Brad Stevens pushed the Hawks to the brink with another near wire-to-wire victory over a stubborn Atlanta team. There were plenty of Celtics fans in Atlanta Sunday, and a lot of them gathered to cheer Jayson Tatum as he left the floor following the Boston win.
