{"id":483516,"date":"2024-05-26T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T04:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483516"},"modified":"2024-05-26T00:02:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T04:02:17","slug":"celtics-defeat-pacers-114-111-for-3-0-lead-in-east-finals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/celtics-defeat-pacers-114-111-for-3-0-lead-in-east-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics defeat Pacers 114-111 for 3-0 lead in East finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jrue Holiday overcame an illness to score the go-ahead 3-point play with 38 seconds until the end, then made a match-saving steal to lead 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\/\">Boston Celtics<\/a><\/a><\/a> to win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> 114-111 after being down 18 points earlier in the match at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN and take a 3-0 matchup lead in the East Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics can clinch its 2<sup>nd<\/sup> NBA Finals trip in 3 campaigns with a Game 4 victory at the same venue at the beginning of the week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BIG TIME W \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8tXkmgi84p\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8tXkmgi84p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1794567682207236584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/jayson-tatum\/\">Jayson Tatum<\/a> matched his postseason career high with 36 points and, grabbed 10 boards and had 8 assists. Jaylen Brown notched 24 points while Al Horford scored 23 points with 7 3s as Boston won their 6<sup>th<\/sup> consecutive postseason match and stayed undefeated away from TD Garden this playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Jrue was on the court despite being listed as questionable with an illness and missing the morning practice.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CelticsWin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CelticsWin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Oy1iuxC6Uq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Oy1iuxC6Uq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Celtics (@celtics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/celtics\/status\/1794565993051877464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Nembhard scored a career-high 30 points for Indiana but made the mistake in the final seconds, allowing Jrue to steal the ball from him. T.J. McConnell had 23 points, 9 boards, and 6 assists, while Myles Turner and Pascal Siakam finished each with 22 points.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y690x9kntec?si=v5PONUw2cKV1mbDz\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jrue Holiday overcame an illness to score the go-ahead 3-point play with 38 seconds until the end, then made a match-saving steal to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483517,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,16971,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18062,18386,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Jrue Holiday\u2019s finishing flurry allowed Boston to win the match.","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\/483516"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483518,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483516\/revisions\/483518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483516"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483516"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}