Celtics narrowly escape (another) Fourth quarter meltdown in win over Kings.
Boston now has 61 wins on the season which ties them for the 10th-most victories in a single season.
Boston’s Xavier Tillman delivered the game-winning basket in Boston’s 101-100 win. (Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images)
BOSTON — Al Horford lobs to Luke Kornet for a dunk. Xavier Tillman splashing 3-balls from the corner.
Welcome to the end-of-the-season portion of the Boston Celtics schedule, featuring the team’s end-of-the-bench talent.
Giving the team’s perennial practice participants some real run in games while trying to keep the core guys playing with some semblance of rhythm, is not easy.
And the Celtics made this game harder - much harder - than it should be with some a late-game meltdown that they managed to escape from courtesy of some late-game heroics from - who else - one of those end-of-the-bench players.
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