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New York (AP) – A championship window seemed to be closed when the Boston Celtics left Madison Square Garden at the beginning of this week.

Jayson Tatum had just been carried by the square With an injury at the end of the season that the Celtics were pushed to the edge of the elimination. The players were decidedly below.

The defending NBA champions are certainly not out.

They return to New York for game 6 on Friday evening (8 ET, ESPN) of the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference, which believed that they can expand the series and the 25-year-old waiting of the Knicks to return to the conference final.

“It is a profit or home at that moment, so none of us want to go home and we understand that it only gets harder,” said Celtics Guard Derrick White. “We haven't done anything yet. I just have one way to go to New York and win a game.”

Only 13 teams have overcome a 3-1 deficit to win a series. The Celtics try without their leading goal scorer, who is his right Achilles tendon late in the Knicks' 121-113 victory in game 4.

“I know it is easy to write down things. Obviously unhappy what happened to JT. But we still played basketball,” said Celtics star Jaylen Brown. “I believe in this group, so they don't count us yet.”

The Celtics rolled into a 127-102 victory On Wednesday and was listed in the second half of all five games with at least 14 points. The Knicks gathered by three of them, but they know that they can not bring the team into a hole.

“We have to be better,” said Knick's all-star Jalen Brunson. “Flather out.”

A victory would send the Knicks to the conference finale for the first time since the loss of the Indiana Pacers in 2000. The Pacers would be the opponent again after Cleveland was equipped in a series that was supposed to start in New York on Wednesday.

If the Celtics won, game 7 would be in Boston on Monday, with the winner only getting a day off before organizing the Pacers.