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The Boston Celtics are a game away from winning their record 18th NBA title. The Dallas Mavericks are in the position of at least hoping to force a gentleman's sweep when the teams meet for a ...
Vincent Goodwill and Isis “Ice” Young recap game 4 of the NBA Finals, which saw the Dallas Mavericks crush the Celtics to send the series back to Boston.
He is averaging 18-4-5 on 47/41/89 shooting splits in these playoffs, and he might be Boston's fourth or fifth option in this series. Titus: Dereck Lively II. If the Mavs are going to effectively ...
With their season on the line, the Dallas Mavericks dominated the Boston Celtics 122-84 in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Friday night at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
A series win gave the Celtics their 18th championship, one more than the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in NBA history. [6] Their last win was in the 2008 NBA Finals. This is the Celtics' third Finals appearance where they played a team from Texas, as they previously defeated the Houston Rockets in the 1981 and 1986 Finals. [7] [8]
The Dallas Mavericks' 38-point lead over the Boston Celtics (122–84) in game 4 of the Finals was the third largest margin of victory in NBA Finals history. [34] Tim Hardaway Jr. joined Ray Allen and Stephen Curry as the only three players to score five or more three-pointers in a single quarter of an NBA Finals game. [35]
The 38-point final margin was the third-biggest ever in an NBA Finals game, behind only Chicago beating Utah 96-54 in 1998 and the Celtics beating the Los Angeles Lakers 131-92 in 2008.
The Mavericks finished at 1.57 points per play on the break in Game 4, according to Cleaning the Glass — more than double what the Celtics allowed in the first two games of these Finals.