James Harden's late-game heroics gave the Boston Celtics a chance to prove that they can, and have to, win games with grit this season.
BOSTON — Slowly but surely, James Harden sucked all the air out of TD Garden on Sunday afternoon. “James has been making shots like that his whole career,” Derrick White said post-game.
What once was a 24-point lead had been whittled down to six. There were 22 seconds left in the game.