Celtics

However, Boston coach Ime Udoka clarified that the soreness doesn't stem from his surgery last month to repair the meniscus in the knee. Instead, scans revealed ...

Grant Williams has started both games in place of Robert Williams but the team has also found some success with smaller lineups. He returned to the starting lineup against the Bucks. Structurally he's fine from the surgery it's just that's where the swelling and soreness came from."

You wanted your Jayson Tatum game ... well it's hard to argue with his Game 6 performance. His 46 points helped keep Boston's season alive and sets up for a ...

Especially late in the second quarter when he hit a couple of big shots and drew a charge on Giannis. Tatum, Brown and Smart combined for 89 of the team's 108 points. Jrue Holiday (17 points) was the only other Bucks starter to score in double figures. He kept his foot on the gas pedal throughout the contest, finishing with a game-high 46 points on 17-of-32 shooting (7-for-15 from 3). Pat Connaughton had 14 (6-8 FG) off the bench and hit a few clutch fourth-quarter shots, but Milwaukee will need much more from its supporting cast if it hopes to take Game 7. He ended with 21 points and seven assists. The Celtics didn't have a variety of scorers either. He hit 14 of his 15 free-throw attempts and drilled two of his three 3-pointers. Paul Pierce also dropped 46 back in the 2002 NBA playoffs. Fortunately for them, the shots were falling in the do-or-die showdown. There were times -- especially in the third quarter when Giannis Antetokounmpo got his fourth foul -- when Boston settled for 3s rather than attacking the basket. The Celtics opened Game 6 with eight straight 3-point attempts, converting on five of them.