Celtics vs. Magic Score, schedule, NBA Playoff -Updates: Boston concludes series with dominant game 5 victory

The Boston Celtics are back in the NBA playoffs And will try to defend your title in 2025. This title defense began with a victory of the first round against Orlando Magic in five games. Boston took care of the business at home in games 1 and 2. However, magic got its first victory in the series, 95-93, in game 3 to make things interesting. The magic fought against the defending champions in game 4 on Sunday, but the Celtics finally prevailed with 107: 98 to put a 3-1 series in the lead. The Celtics then excluded it and eliminated the magic in blowout fashion in game 5, 120-89 on Tuesday evening.

The Celtics went 61-21 in the regular season and took second place in the Eastern Conference behind the Cleveland Cavaliers. Meanwhile, magic deserves the seed No. 7 in the East clip with its play-in tournament victory against the Atlanta Hawks.

As expected, the Celtics dominated in the regular season and went 29-6 in their last 35 games. Jayson Tatum appears in his fourth all-NBA first team selection in a row after scoring 26.8 points per game. In the regular season, the Celtics had five players on average at least 14 points per game: Tatum, Jayson Brown, Kristapaps Porziis, Derrick White and the sixth man of the year Payton Pritchhard. Boston drove through the East Playoffs last season and scored 12-2 against the heat, Kavaliere and Pacer.

The magic ended 41-41 up to date and off in a regular season. Orlando started the year 15: 7 and was six games under 0.500 by March 19, but the team won nine of his last 12 games. Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner both dealt with injuries on the way, but they were great when they were on the pitch. Banchero scored an average of 25.9 points per game in 46 games, while Wagner achieved an average of 24.2 points in 60 appearances.

Celtics vs. Magic schedule, results

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Game 1: Celtics 103, Magic 86
Game 2: Celtics 109, Magic 100
Game 3: Magic 95, Celtics 93
Game 4: Celtics 107, Magic 98
Game 5: Celtics 120, Magic 89 (Boston wins, 4-1)

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