{"id":65472,"date":"2020-09-12T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/celtics-dethrone-defending-champion-raptors-in-hard-fought-game-7-win\/"},"modified":"2020-09-12T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T11:43:00","slug":"celtics-dethrone-defending-champion-raptors-in-hard-fought-game-7-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/celtics-dethrone-defending-champion-raptors-in-hard-fought-game-7-win\/","title":{"rendered":"#Celtics dethrone defending champion Raptors in hard-fought Game 7 win"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Celtics dethrone defending champion Raptors in hard-fought Game<\/a> 7 win<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 12, 2020 |<\/span> 7:43am <\/p>\n

\n LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. \u2014 It took every bit of seven games, but Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics are headed to the Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n

And they dethroned the NBA champions to get there.<\/p>\n

Tatum scored 29 points, Jaylen Brown had 21 and the Celtics topped the Toronto Raptors 92-87 on Friday night in Game 7 of the East semifinal series<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Marcus Smart scored 16 points and Kemba Walker added 14 for third-seeded Boston. The Celtics will face the fifth-seeded Miami Heat in the East finals, that series starting Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to achieve something great, if you want to win, it\u2019s not going to be easy,\u201d Tatum said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re here for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fred VanVleet scored 20 points for Toronto, which got 16 from Kyle Lowry, 14 from Serge Ibaka, 13 from Pascal Siakam and 11 from Norman Powell. The Raptors were bidding to become the seventh franchise in NBA history to win four consecutive Game 7\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Boston scored the first seven points of the fourth, taking an eight-point lead. The Celtics never trailed in the final quarter, though it was close all the way to the end.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should definitely be hardened,\u201d Celtics coach Brad Stevens said. \u201cWe should definitely have a lot more in our toolbox to go back to. But we also have to get ready for a different, more unique team now in Miami.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the sixth consecutive Game 7 decided by five points or less, though it wasn\u2019t always played like a classic. Toronto had 18 turnovers that Boston turned into 31 points; the Celtics shot 9-for-38 from 3-point range and 13-for-23 from the line.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan, it was a tough game to lose,\u201d an emotional Lowry said. \u201cBut they won. Tip your hats to them. They have a chance to go on and play against Miami and get to the championship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Powell had a chance to tie it on a drive with just under a minute left, his layup erased by Smart with a block that preserved an 89-87 lead. Lowry fouled out on the next possession, a call the Raptors argued and challenged to no avail. Grant Williams missed both free throws, but Powell fouled Tatum going for the rebound.<\/p>\n

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Tatum made one of two, the lead was three and all Boston needed was one more stop.<\/p>\n

The Celtics got just that; VanVleet was well short on a 3-point try, Walker sealed it with free throws with 7.9 seconds left, and Toronto\u2019s reign was about to end.<\/p>\n

It was exactly one year ago Friday when four Celtics \u2014 Walker, Smart, Brown and Tatum \u2014 were part of the USA Basketball team in China that fell apart in the fourth quarter of a Basketball World Cup quarterfinal against France, a loss that kept the Americans out of the Final Four of that tournament.<\/p>\n

Not this time. Not this year.<\/p>\n

Next week, there will be four NBA teams left standing. The Celtics will be one of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about will, determination, resiliency,\u201d Brown said. \u201cA lot of that stuff you can\u2019t find on the stat sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The back-and-forth started from the jump. Boston quickly put together what became a 13-0 run on the way to an early 19-7 edge. Toronto ripped off 10 straight to lead after the first quarter. Boston then went on a 15-2 spurt to reclaim the lead and the Celtics ended up taking a 50-46 lead into the break.<\/p>\n

And the fight never stopped. In the third, Boston pushed the lead to nine. Toronto scored the next eight and eventually took the lead before the Celtics claimed it back \u2014 for good.<\/p>\n

Boston led 72-71 going into the fourth, making this the 21st Game 7 in NBA history where the margin was zero or one going into the final 12 minutes. And this time, the Raptors didn\u2019t have the final answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey gave everything they had,\u201d Raptors coach Nick Nurse said. \u201cSpecial team.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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