The Boston Celtics and their fans are still basking in the afterglow of a buzzer-beating, 115 – 114 Game 1 won over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday afternoon, courtesy of a brilliant last-second pass from veteran point guard Marcus Smart to a cutting Jayson Tatum for a layup that went in as time expired.
There is plenty of time to dissect what went wrong enough to put Boston in a position to need such a miraculous shot to beat the Nets on their own home court in the first place. But after a game they held superstar Nets forward Kevin Durant to just 1-of-5 from beyond the arc and managed to gut out the win, the main focus in the postgame scrum was how Boston’s star forward and Smart managed to pull off the play.
“Honestly, we all thought that Smart was going to shoot it,” said Tatum.
It was quite the ending to a very intense game. https://t.co/JAJ6vUZjMP
— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) April 18, 2022