IN A NUTSHELL
Sweeps in playoff series are often harder to secure than the games’ final scores or stats suggest. (Consider the perverse misery that was last night’s Houston-Utah game: Houston walked away with the W but the contest was a vile pettiness-drenched brickapalooza; nobody won it.) So if I told you I was confident in the Boston Celtics sweeping the Indiana Pacers in Game 4 of this first round, I’d be lying, 3-0 lead or not.
Like every other game in this series, this came down to the wire, becoming a foregone conclusion only when the Cs fired off an 18-5 run midway through the fourth quarter that the Pacers had no answer for.