{"id":483124,"date":"2024-05-16T01:25:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T05:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483124"},"modified":"2024-05-16T01:25:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T05:25:48","slug":"celtics-advance-to-ec-finals-with-dominant-game-5-win-vs-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/celtics-advance-to-ec-finals-with-dominant-game-5-win-vs-cavaliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics advance to EC Finals with dominant Game 5 win vs Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/boston-celtics\/\">Boston Celtics<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> advanced to the Eastern Conference finals for the third consecutive year\u2014and the sixth time in the past eight seasons\u2014by defeating the visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> 113-98 in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Top-seeded Boston won the best-of-seven series 4-1 and will face either the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/new-york-knicks\/\">New York Knicks<\/a> for the Eastern Conference title. Currently, second-seeded New York leads sixth-seeded Indiana 3-2, with Game 6 set for Friday night in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">GOOD. NIGHT. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DR4oZUKRlS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/DR4oZUKRlS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1790970519841353813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Al Horford played a pivotal role in the victory, contributing 22 points and 15 rebounds. <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/jayson-tatum\/\">Jayson Tatum<\/a> added a stellar performance with 25 points, 10 rebounds, and nine assists. Boston&#8217;s lead was a narrow three points early in the fourth quarter, but they pulled away to a 101-87 advantage following a Tatum three-pointer with 6:45 remaining. After that, the Cavaliers never posed a threat.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25 Lets goooooooo. Al is unreal. Respect <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Al_Horford?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Al_Horford<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AR3bgTGUbl\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/AR3bgTGUbl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kristaps Porzingis (@kporzee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kporzee\/status\/1790939200864346417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Celtics have maintained an impressive 7-0 record in the playoffs this season when their opponents score fewer than 100 points. This defensive resilience will be crucial as they prepare for their upcoming challenge in the Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mnya0xsgYOc?si=vH0esGuzpUxNYK47\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics advanced to the Eastern Conference finals for the third consecutive year\u2014and the sixth time in the past eight seasons\u2014by defeating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":483125,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,17531],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18062,18066],"acf":{"announce":"Boson won 13-98 to reach the finals in their conference for the third season in a row","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483127,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483124\/revisions\/483127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483124"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483124"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}