Basketball is a fair game, and that was proven again early Tuesday morning (5/30) when the Heat defeated the Celtics 103-84 at TG Garden in Boston and won the Eastern Conference Finals in three straight games. Qualifying for the NBA Finals They meet Nikola Jokic’s Denver Nuggets.

The Miami team saw 3-0 go 3-3, faced their first… collapse in playoff history with that clean result, but entered the TD Garden with shocking determination and delivered a gratifying one to those in attendance Perfomance. Confrontation. Legendary performance from – undrafted – Caleb Martin (26 points, 11/16 shots, 9 rebounds), followed by Jimmy Butler (28 points in 28 shots, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals), who became District Finals MVP those who stepped on the ground to lay down their stone for Erik Spoelstra.

The Celtics, on the other hand, missed a chance to become the first team to convert a 3-0 deficit into a 3-4 deficit, taking the series 0-151. Jayson Tatum twisted his ankle in the early stages of the fight and was just a ghost of his good self after that, with Derrick White and Jaylen Brown being the only ones up for this fight. Boston saw a series gone wrong turn in an unlikely way, but in this Game 7 things weren’t like last year when the Milwaukee Bucks and the series’ best team advanced to the Finals.

42-38 bat points, 8-17 surprise points, 16-19 spare points, 21-19 opponent errors, 13-16 second chance points, the game was not a draw, the Celtics never took the lead, 5-4 Butler-Martin votes for the MVP of the series.

The race

Both teams started nervously, but from the first timeout to the second the Heat took a 2-12 lead, and with 5/6 shots over that period, they went four shots up (11-15 in 9′). At the end of the season (15-22), the hosts had 0/10 trebles and three assists for four errors, while the visitors had wasted just one possession and scored seven points in the upset.

A quick 0:5 early in the second round gave the Heat (15:27) a 12 point lead with the field now extremely frozen. And as long as Miami had good ball movement, they also found good shots from distance, with Lowry being great at execution and creation and Adebayo writing 34-47. The baton went to Butler, who scored five points in a row to make it 39-52, and by halftime everyone felt the Celtics weren’t there.

Midway through the third period, the hosts looked strong as Derrick White cornered them and reduced them to eight points (58-66), but Caleb Martin was unbeatable. Five of his own points made the score 66-76 after 12 minutes, while the Celtics continued to shoot poorly (7/28 threes) and put Tatum in a bad situation.

The fourth period began with a missed layup by Tatum and a 7-0 run for the Heat, who went 17 (66-83) ahead and never looked back from there. They achieved a victory of epic proportions with their own basketball, left no doubt in a haunting manner and showed for the umpteenth time what material they are made of. And they’re not done yet.

THE DODECALEPTA: 15-22, 41-52, 66-76, 84-103

BOSTON CELTICS (Joe Mazzula): Brown 19 (7/14 2-points, 1/9 3-points, 2/2 shots, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 blocks, 8 turnovers), Tatum 14 (5/13 shots, 11 rebounds , 4 assists), Horford 8 (2 3-points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists), White 18 (2/9 3-points), Smart 9 (1/6 3-points), Brogdon, Grant Williams 3 (1) , Robert Williams 8 (4/5 2 pointers, 6 rebounds), Hauser 2, Cornet, Mascala

STRONG HEAT (Erik Spoelstra): Butler 28 (9/21 2-points, 3/7 3-points, 1/2 shots, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals), Martin 26 (7/10 2-points, 4/6 3-pointers, 10 rebounds, 3 assists), Adebayo 12 (10 rebounds, 7 assists), Struss 8 (2), Vincent 10 (2), Lowry 7 (1 three-pointer, 7 rebounds, 5 assists), Highsmith 2 , Robinson 10 (2), Jovic, Yurtseven

Boston Celtics team stats: 23/40 2-pointers, 9/42 3-pointers, 11/13 shots, 44 rebounds, 18 assists, 6 steals, 4 blocks, 15 turnovers, 13 fouls

Miami Heat team stats: 28/58 2-points, 14/28 3-points, 5/6 shots, 53 rebounds, 26 assists, 7 steals, 2 blocks, 12 turnovers, 15 fouls