For the fourth time in as many games in the Eastern Conference finals, one team blitzed the other, and one of the strangest best-of-seven series in recent NBA memory is somehow headed back to Miami tied, 2-2.
The Miami Heat missed their first 14 shots on Monday night, scored the fewest points (1) through the first nine minutes of a playoff game this century and could not recover in a 102-82 loss to the Boston Celtics.
Jayson Tatum led five Celtics in double figures with 31 points, eight rebounds and five assists.
It was a mirror image of Saturday's Game 3, when the Heat led by 21 points by the end of the first quarter and as many as 26 points in the first half, only Miami never threatened to mount a comeback in Game 4.