Celtics come up clutch again; into Finals after sweeping Pacers

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INDIANAPOLIS -- When Boston Celtics legend Cedric Maxwell read off Jaylen Brown's name as the winner of the Larry Bird Trophy as Eastern Conference finals MVP, no one seemed more surprised than Brown himself.

"I wasn't expecting it at all," Brown would say later, with the trophy sitting next to him at the podium after Boston's series-ending 105-102 Game 4 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Monday night, before adding with a broad smile, "I don't never win s---."

But it was Brown who made a pair of plays in the final 65 seconds -- first blocking Andrew Nembhard's drive to the rim, then getting into the lane and kicking the ball out to Derrick…