INDIANAPOLIS — Friday night’s Game 3 will be a homecoming of sorts for Celtics coach Brad Stevens and forward Gordon Hayward.
The pair of Indiana natives will be returning to Bankers Life Fieldhouse, where the Celtics hope to extend their 2-0 series lead over the Indiana Pacers in their first-round playoff series. The setting should certainly hold a level of sentimental value for Hayward, who, as a high school senior at Brownsburg, hit a buzzer-beater to win the 2008 state basketball tournament.
“That’s something I’ll never forget,” Hayward said after shootaround Friday morning.