The Boston Celtics dropped a crucial game on Friday night to the one team ahead of them in the Eastern Conference standings, the Cleveland Cavaliers, 123-116.
Less than five minutes had passed in Friday night's final regular-season showdown between the top two teams in the Eastern Conference, the Cavaliers and Celtics, and the game already felt over. Cleveland coach Kenny Atkinson had burned his second timeout,
Cleveland outscored Boston by 29 points from that moment forward.
With Celtics fans in a frenzy throughout TD Garden after the Boston Celtics blitzed to a 25-3 lead over the Cavaliers in the final matchup of Eastern Conference frontrunners, Cleveland star Donovan Mitchell didn’t panic.