Celtics Hit Another Dead End, With No Clear Path Forward This Time
A team with N.B.A. championship aspirations fell short against Miami. Tough calls and new contracts await.
The curtains closed on Monday night for the Boston Celtics’s Jekyll and Hyde routine.
One hundred fifty N.B.A. teams had tried and failed to overcome a 3-0 playoff series deficit. The Celtics made it 151 with their loss against the Miami Heat in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals. The final game in a series full of momentum swings was not competitive: Miami led by double digits for most of the night and won comfortably, 103-84. It was Boston’s third home loss of the series and a bitter disappointment for a team that reached the N.B.A. finals last season and had been expecting to return.
“We failed, I failed,” a despondent Jaylen Brown told reporters after the game. “We let the whole city down.”
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