They certainly didn’t make it easy, but the Miami Heat are officially headed to the NBA Finals.
Caleb Martin and the Heat fended off the Boston Celtics on Monday night at TD Garden to take Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals 103-84. Martin dropped 26 points and shot 11-of-16 from the field in what turned out to be a blowout win in Boston. That snapped a three-game win streak for the Celtics, and kept the Heat from landing on the wrong side of NBA history.
The Celtics were just the fourth team in league history to even force a Game 7 after falling into a 0-3 series hole.