Final: Celtics 143, Spurs 140 (OT)- Tatum leads historic comeback with record scoring night

TIP OFF: 7:30 p.m. @ TD Garden
RADIO: 98.5 The Sports Hub
TV: NBC Sports Boston

Predicted Starting Lineups

• Jaylen Brown is just having a rough night. Another miss and another turnover. He's rebounding and doing other things, but he doesn't have it offensively


• Tatum is up to 52


• Make it 56. An and-1 for the Spurs has now put the game at an odd number, so the Spurs are up 1 but Boston has the ball with 31.5 left.


• And Brown finally gets one to fall, a corner 3, with 16.7 seconds left. Wow


• Aaron Nesmith sniffed out the alley oop and stole the ball. Tatum was fouled and hit 2 free throws to put Boston up 4


• Patty Mills hit an amazing 3 pointer to cut it to 1.


• Tatum got fouled on the inbounds and hit two free throws to tie Larry Bird's single game record.

• Aaron Nesmith is hitting 3's with a bit of confidence right now


• Jayson Tatum is taking over. His 4-point play cut the lead down to 10 and then 2 more free throws cut the 32 point Spurs lead to 8 with 9:24 to go


• The Celtics have tied this game. Nesmith is huge right now


• The Celtics have made so many mistakes just in this comeback that have cost them a few baskets. As it stands, they're down 2 with the ball and 3:48 to go


• The Celtics continue to foul too much. Their chances of taking the lead keep taking hits when they foul and give the Spurs free points


• Jaylen Brown is not being included in the fun... he is having a tough shooting night (4-21 so far)


• Tatum missed a buzzer beater... overtime

• Boston is... making a run? They've cut 4 points off the Spurs lead


• Boston gets an 8-0 run together and the lead is down to 20, which sounds horrible because it is. Also, the lead had been 32 so that's something


• The Celtics would be in a much better position here if they weren't missing a ton of layups. They could have made a bigger dent in this lead.


• Fournier has woken up, so has Jaylen Brown. Aaron Nesmith is making hustle plays and Boston just put up a 42-26 quarter to get back within 13

• Tatum is starting to hunt fouls in the post, using a sort of rip through move on his way up after a spin.


• Tremont Waters and Grant Williams have shot the ball well to start the 2nd.  Boston is actually playing even with San Antonio. Now they have to get some stops.


• Evan Fournier is having a very rough time. He still hasn't hit a shot and he's been an absolute liability on defense


• Jaylen Brown has not scored yet as of the 5:24 mark of the second quarter


• The Spurs are shooting 69.7% at the same mark.


• Here's San Antonio's shot chart at the half. This is absurd

• The Spurs are getting just about any shot they want and they've knocked down 6 of 8 of them in the early going. Boston has not, hitting just 2 of 6, and falling behind 14-5. The Spurs are on a 10-0 run.


• Jayson Tatum has all 10 0f Boston's points so far.


• Make it 12. Tatum is 5-7. The rest of the team is 0-6


• The defense right now is atrocious. There's just no resistance


• Brad Stevens just called for Grant Williams to double DeRozan, which he did, then after DeRozan gave it up BOTH Williams and Tatum left DeRozan unguarded. He got the ball back and got fouled. He hit both shots.


• Boston is down 39-16 and it took a 14 point quarter from Tatum to make it that close

• Point Spread: Celtics -4.5


• Over-Under: 221 points


• Money line: Celtics -190, Spurs +165

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