The Celtics’ Game 6 win over the Bucks was one for the ages with two superstars trading key buckets in crunch time.
Jayson Tatum outscored Giannis Antetokounmpo, 46-44, in order to keep Boston’s season alive and force a Game 7. It was also an historic performance for arguably the league’s most historic franchise. Tatum’s 46 points in Friday’s game tied the second-most ever scored by a Celtic in an elimination game, with Sam Jones’s 47-point performance against Cincinnati in Game 7 of the 1963 Eastern Division Final the only one to top it.
Tatum was also the first Celtic to score 40 or more points in an elimination game since 2008, when Paul Pierce scored 41 points to lift the Celtics over the Cavaliers in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinal.