Celtics make the NBA playoff story in the series clinching victory against magic

The Boston Celtics prevailed on Tuesday evening against Orlando Magic in the first half of the 5th game.

There the Celtics had the opportunity to close the series on their floor at home, and they remained at halftime after a mediocre shooting half of the Magic 49-47.

But after half -time the switch turned.

Boston went 36-13 in third place, thanks to the assembled stops, the fountain and of course for three. Boston would surpass the Magic 37-27 in fourth and won with 31 with a 120-89 blowout victory.

According to NBC Sports Boston researcher Dick Lipe, the 31-point victory margin is the greatest of all time in the NBA playoff story for a rice sequence at half-time. The previous record was held by the Golden State Warriors when they were 10 against 10 against 10 against 10 against the Houston Rockets in 2018 and the game won by 29.

Jayson Tatum scored 35 points and added 10 assists and eight rebounds. The Jaylen Brown running colleague scored 23 points to achieve six templates. Boston shot 56.6% of the ground and 54.2% of three in victory.

The Celtics will compete in the semi -finals of the Eastern Conference against the winner of the series between the Detroit Pistons and New York Knicks.

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