{"id":403968,"date":"2024-06-18T04:11:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T04:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=403968"},"modified":"2024-06-18T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T05:06:08","slug":"celtics-capture-record-breaking-nba-title-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=403968","title":{"rendered":"Celtics capture record-breaking NBA title victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Celtics<\/a> again stand alone among NBA<\/a> champions.<\/p>\n

Jayson Tatum scored 31 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds as the Celtics topped the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 on Tuesday (AEST) to win the franchise\u2019s 18th championship, breaking a tie with the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in league history.<\/p>\n

Jaylen Brown added 21 points, while Jrue Holiday finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds. Kristaps Porzingis also provided an emotional lift, returning from a two-game absence because of a dislocated tendon in his left ankle to chip in five points.<\/p>\n

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Boston earned its latest title on the 16th anniversary of hoisting its last Larry O\u2019Brien Trophy in 2008.<\/p>\n

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It helped the Celtics cap a postseason that saw them go 16-3 and finish with an 80-21 overall record. That .792 winning percentage ranks second in team history.<\/p>\n

Second-year coach Joe Mazzulla, at age 35, also became the youngest coach since Bill Russell in 1969 to lead a team to a championship.<\/p>\n

Luka Doncic finished with 28 points and 12 rebounds for Dallas, which failed to extend the series after avoiding a sweep with a 38-point win in game four.<\/p>\n

Kyrie Irving finished with just 15 points on 5-of-16 shooting and has now lost 13 of the last 14 meetings against the Celtics team he left in the summer of 2019.<\/p>\n

NBA teams are now 0-157 in postseason series after falling into a 3-0 deficit. Boston never trailed and led by as many as 26 feeding off the energy of the Garden crowd.<\/p>\n

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After both struggling at times offensively in the series, Tatum and Brown hit a groove in game five, combining for 31 points and 11 assists in the first half.<\/p>\n

It helped bring out all the attributes that made Boston the NBA's most formidable team this postseason \u2013 spreading teams out, sharing the ball, and causing havoc on defense.<\/p>\n

And it put a championship bow on dizzying two-year stretch for the Celtics, that saw them lose in the finals to the Golden State Warriors in 2022 and then fail to return last season after a game seven home loss to the Miami Heat in the conference finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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