BOSTON -- This was Jeff Green's idea all along.
Win a Game 7. At TD Garden. Go to a Finals.
Doing it all while wearing a Cavaliers uniform? He didn't really catch on to that one until last summer when he joined his old coach, Tyronn Lue, who was an assistant on the Celtics when Green played there.
"That's the conversation I had with T-Lue," Green said.
Green was magnificent in the Cavs' 87-79 win over the Celtics in Game 7 of the conference finals on Sunday. He started for Kevin Love and scored 19 points with eight rebounds, and provided the versatility to switch onto any Boston player on defense in what was Cleveland's best defensive performance statistically of the entire season.