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The top five plays from Game 7 between the Celtics and Bucks include Jayson Tatum euro-stepping his way to the basket and Daniel Theis denying Giannis ...

Instead, he takes on the challenge and does a great job going up with his arms out, extending his right arm to deny Portis' dunk without fouling. Smart swings the ball to Tatum, Williams picks off Jrue Holiday, Lopez steps up to occupy the middle of the paint, and Tatum delivers a perfect pass as this well-designed set play produces an alley-oop for Brown, who finishes through contact. Also featured are Jaylen Brown finishing an alley-oop through contact, Payton Pritchard cooking in the fourth quarter, and Grant Williams besting Bobby Portis.

The No. 2 seed Boston Celtics and No. 1 seed Miami Heat face off in the Eastern Conference Finals of the 2022 NBA Playoffs.

Boston is equipped to guard the Heat in the halfcourt with almost no weak defenders in the rotation. The Heat are going to fight like hell, but I'm picking the Celtics in six." Boston's dominant defense will slow down everyone but Butler in the conference finals, and should flip first and second on that net rating leaderboard." Tipico has no influence over nor are any such revenues in any way dependent on or linked to the newsrooms or news coverage. Jimmy Butler is playing at a whole other level on both ends of the court. This should be another competitive series, with tough defenses to crack on both ends of the floor. The expectation here is that Butler’s defense will be enough to prevent Jayson Tatum from dominating on the offensive end of the court. But the Celtics are 4-1 on the road, having saved their season with a huge win in Milwaukee in Game 6 of the conference semis. On the other end, it feels like Boston has enough spacing to stretch out the Heat defense and let Tatum go to work against a Heat defense with more weak spots. They will force the other players on the Heat to beat them. He's been unbelievable in the NBA Playoffs, but the Celtics are a team designed to shut him down. John Schuhmann writes: "The Heat have home-court advantage, they had the East’s best home record (29-12) in the regular season, and they’re 6-0 at home in the playoffs.

The Miami Heat are playing the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals for the second time in three years. Here's what the Celtics players had to ...

Celtics forward Jayson Tatum: “We get to play Miami again. Guys that aren’t going to give you anything, not an inch. Guys that aren’t going to give up.

Grant Williams exploded for a career-high 27 points as the Celtics advanced to the NBA's final four with a 109-81 romp over the Bucks.

“I told him to ‘Let it fly. Article content Article content The Celtics will be making their fourth trip to the Eastern Finals in the last six seasons. Article content Article content

We're down to the final four in the 2022 playoffs; who will make it to the NBA Finals?

Kaskey-Blomain's pick: Celtics in 6. Maloney's pick: Warriors in 7. Botkin's pick: Celtics in 6. Kaskey-Blomain's pick: Warriors in 7. While the Warriors are the favorites to win this series -- and win the title -- based off of their championship history, Golden State hasn't looked like that world-beating, fearful team we saw back in 2016. The Warriors have shown plenty of flaws this postseason, but they possess the adaptability and championship mettle to make it back to the Finals for the first time since 2019. Once again, Miami is a lot better than they're given credit for, at least in mainstream conversation, but the Celtics will ultimately be too much on both ends. Maloney's pick: Celtics in 6. These two teams mirror one another in a lot of ways. Miami faces a similar problem, especially with Kyle Lowry still battling a hamstring injury, and doesn't have anyone as good as Giannis Antetokounmpo. This will be a serious scrap, but in the end the Celtics will have too much talent on both sides of the ball. In the West, it'll be the No. 3 Warriors against the No. 4 Dallas Mavericks. In the East, it's the No. 1 Miami Heat vs. It genuinely feels like any one of these four teams could end up in the Finals, but of course, we all have our opinions on who actually will make it.

The Boston Celtics have eliminated the defending champions, beating the Milwaukee Bucks 109-81 in Game 7 to move on to the Eastern Conference Finals.

We didn’t overcome all the stuff we did during the regular season for that to be it. I expected to play the way I did and for us to respond the way we did.” It was 63-53 when Tatum went to the bench after being whistled for his fourth foul. “If you believe in the basketball gods, those things matter.” Boston used a whopping 54-point advantage from behind the arc to improve to 25-9 in decisive seventh games. The Celtics will face top-seeded Miami beginning Tuesday in a rematch of the 2020 East finals.