On April 21, Beijing time, the second game of the Nets Celtics series, the Green Shirts completed a big reversal after falling behind by up to 17 points, thus rewriting the series score to 2-0, and completely controlling the series initiative in their own hands!
It is worth mentioning that this is the 42nd time in the history of the Celtics to take a 2-0 lead in a 7-game, 41-4 series, and the previous 41 times, they have successfully won the series in as many as 40 times, a whopping 97.6%! In other words, it will be extremely difficult for the Nets to reverse this series!
The only time the Greenshirts led 2-0 but lost the series was in the 2018 Eastern Conference Finals, losing to the well-known Thanos! It is worth mentioning that the main core of that Celtic team at that time also included Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Smart and Horford.
In that series, James G2 slashed 42 points, 10 boards and 12 assists on the road, G4 bombed 44 points at home, G6 slashed 46 points, 11 boards and 9 assists at home, and hit key three-pointers consecutively in the final moment to kill the game. And the most important seven-time battle, LeBron played 48 minutes to send 35 points, 15 boards and 9 assists, and the last moment of carrying Morris to the basket became a famous scene in the NBA, playing the Celtics' devil home to a dead end. Throughout the series, James averaged 41.1 minutes per game, delivering 33.6 points, 9 boards, 8.4 assists, 1.1 breaks and 1.1 caps, shooting 52.4%, while the Cavaliers' second-highest average per game Lefour only had 12.5 points.
James was 33 years old that year, and Durant is now also 33 years old, can Death lead the Nets to replicate the miracle of Zhan Huang?