Celtics, Cavaliers win thrillers

The Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers are one win away from the NBA Eastern Conference finals after a thrilling wins yesterday.

Al Horford scored the goahead basket for Boston late in overtime in a wild game three where the Philadelphia 76ers gave away the basketball and the confetti, leading the Celtics to a 101-98 win to go up 3-0 in the series.

LeBron James drilled a fadeaway floater off the glass to beat the buzzer against the Toronto Raptors, giving his team a 3-0 series lead. Both the Celtics and Cavaliers go for the sweep tomorrow.

The ending to regulation in the Celtics-76ers game was about as wild as it gets for both teams. JJ Redick threw away the basketball on an errant pass to no one that was scooped by Terry Rozier who threw to Jaylen Brown for the basket and an 89-87 lead.

Seconds later, Marco Belinelli stunned everyone with a falling 22-footer in front of the 76ers bench as time expired that sent the game into overtime – and confetti mistakenly blasted from the cannon. There was about a sevenminute delay while team employees scrambled to clean up the mess. Some players even scooped up confetti.

Belinelli opened OT with a 23-footer and Redick followed with a 3 that appeared to take him off the hook.

But the Celtics wouldn’t let them pull away and Horford escaped for a layup with 5.5 seconds that gave Boston a 99-98 lead. Ben Simmons then threw the ball away after a timeout and Horford sealed the win with two free throws.

In Cleveland, the Raptors overcame a 17-point deficit to level things with eight seconds remaining, locking the scores at 103 before James, almost inevitably, produced his last-gasp heroics.