Photo by Vaughn Ridley/NBAE via Getty Imagesīridges is averaging 16.9 points, 4.4 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.2 steals per game. Cameron Payne and Landry Shamet are both out with foot injuries. Devin Booker has been out since Christmas with a groin injury and will miss this game but hopes to return Tuesday. For the Suns, Jay Crowder remains out as the Suns look for a trade to move him to another team. Danilo Gallinari remains out with a torn ACL. Marcus Smart remains out for the Celtics with a sprained ankle. They lost their last game but have won 6 of their last 8 games. They are 7-12 against Eastern Conference opponents. They are 8-17 on the road and 6-4 in their last 10 games. They are 9.5 games behind 1st place Denver, half a game behind 6th place Minnesota and 1 game ahead of 11th place Portland. They are 16-4 against Western Conference teams and they have won their last 2 games. The Celtics are 20-6 at home and 7-3 in their last 10 games. The Celtics are 3 games ahead of 3rd place Philadelphia and 5.5 games ahead of 4th place Nets. They are 2 games ahead of 2nd place Milwaukee. The Celtics won the first game 125-98 in Phoenix on December 7 and led that game by as many as 45 points in the second half. This is the 2nd and final game between these two teams. The Celtics are 75-59 overall all time against the Suns and they are 42-23 all time in games played in Boston. It is the first of back to back games with a game in Detroit on Saturday. This is the first game of a 5 game road trip for the Suns. The Suns and Celtics split the series 1-1 last season with each team winning on their home court. The Celtics will head to Detroit for one game on the road before returning to Boston for another 3 game home stand. The Celtics are 2-1 so far, losing to the Knicks before beating the Lakers and Nets. This is the 4th and final game of the 4 game home stand. The Celtics complete their home stand as they host the Phoenix Suns. Williams took advantage of a Milwaukee defense that was paying extra attention to Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown and basically daring him to shoot to the tune of 27 points in his 39 minutes of action.Phoenix Suns (27-26) at Boston Celtics (37-15) Grant Williams was a key contributor for the Celtics all series, due largely to the solid defense that he was able to play on Giannis, but in Game 7, Williams exploded on the offensive end. That's a staggering number that would be virtually insurmountable for almost any team, including the Bucks on Sunday afternoon. Overall, Boston outscored Milwaukee by a whopping 54 points from long range on Sunday. The Celtics have an extremely rich history, so that's a pretty impressive statistic. The 22 3-pointers that Boston hit were the most ever in a Game 7 in NBA history, and the most in a playoff game in Celtics history, per ESPN. Two players on the Celtics - Jayson Tatum (5-of-9 from long range) and Grant Williams (7-of-18) made more triples than the entire Bucks team. The Bucks, on the other hand, converted just four of their 33 attempts from long range. The Celtics rained down 22 3-pointers over the course of the contest, and they converted their 55 attempts at a 40 percent clip. The 3-point disparity between Boston and Milwaukee was probably the single biggest factor in the outcome of Game 7. But before moving on to the conference finals, here's a look at three key takeaways from Boston's Game 7 victory over Milwaukee. There are no excuses in the playoffs, though, and the Celtics proved to be the better team over the course of the series, and now they'll face an extremely tough test in the Heat. Middleton averaged 20.1 points per game during the regular season. It's tough to overstate how much the Bucks missed Khris Middleton in this series, especially in Game 7 when they struggled to produce points outside of Antetokounmpo. Ultimately though, his production wasn't enough to lift the Bucks back to the conference finals. Jayson Tatum had 23 points, eight assists and six rebounds, and Jaylen Brown added 19 points and eight rebounds for Boston.Īs he did all series, Giannis Antetokounmpo did everything he could for Milwaukee, as he finished with 25 points, 20 rebounds and nine assists. Grant Williams led the way for the Celtics (yes, you read that correctly) with 27 points and six rebounds. Now, they'll face off against the Miami Heat for an opportunity to advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2010. The Celtics were down in the series 3-2 after five games, but they were able to avoid elimination in Game 6, and they did the same again in Game 7. After a hard-fought seven games series, it will be the Boston Celtics that advance to the Eastern Conference finals after they pulled out an impressive 109-81 victory over the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks in Game 7 on Sunday afternoon. There will be a new NBA champion this season.
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