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Mavericks 67-88 Celtics, 9:08 left, 4th quarterDallas calls timeout. The crowd feels it.Porzingis is back in. He hasn’t been a factor yet, but will he make some noise before this is done? He starts the quarter with a brick, but then he grabs a rebound at the other end after White somehow stops Lively at the rim.More misses – the Celtics have gone ice-cold. They’re keeping the margin large through defense and rebounding.
Lively blocks Brown’s dunk attempt. But Boston gets a turnover, and Tatum draws a foul in transition. He hits both free throws.Dončić scores to cut the lead to 18, and the Celtics have seen enough. Timeout.Dončić opens the second-half scoring, backing into the lane and hitting a turnaround jumper. Remember Game 2, at the end of the third quarter, when Payton Pritchard took the inbounds pass, covered more than half the court in a couple of seconds and put up a long buzzer-beater that went in?Horford gets the rebound off the missed Dallas free throw and gets it to Pritchard, who gets to midcourt and let’s fly.Mavericks 46-64 Celtics, 3.0 left, 2nd quarterMavericks lose the ball in a scramble, and Brown scores in transition.
Boston has gone to a small lineup again. That was a disaster in Game 4. Right on cue, Gafford gets another dunk.But Washington and Jones score on either side of a Holiday miss. The lead is back down to single digits, and Boston calls timeout.Jones hit a 3. Tatum drives and scores – he now has 8 points to go with his 7 assists.Tatum isn’t messing around with jumpers tonight. He drives, scores and gets the foul on Kleber, who’ll depart from the game in favor of Washington.
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