It is not an exaggeration to say the Celtics season was completely saved Friday night in their Game 3 win over the Brooklyn Nets. Everything was looking very grim coming off a Game 2 shellacking. The Celtics could have taken the blows and gone down in a sweep to a more talented Nets team. Instead, the team rallied together in front of the TD Garden faithful and played one of their best games of the season. No matter how the rest of the series goes, everyone needed to see a resilient win like this.
The headline of the game will of course be Jayson Tatum’s 50-point game.