The Boston Celtics have been unstoppable in the playoffs since falling to the Miami Heat in Game 7 of the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals. They’ve since won an NBA championship, notched 61 regular-season wins in 2024-25, and defeated the Orlando Magic in five games last month.

Jayson Tatum had just been carried off the court with a season-ending injury minutes before the Celtics were pushed to the brink of elimination when they played at Madison Square Garden earlier this w

The Celtics didn’t have it on Friday, but their series ended long before Friday’s disaster. The post The Celtics fall flat, bow out of playoffs in Knicks’ Game 6 beatdown: Takeaways appeared first on Boston.

Awful shooting by the Celtics, combined with little to no energy from the team across the board, up against a ramped up Knicks squad at Madison Square Garden, and New York put them in a stranglehold. Boston shot 36% from the field and 29% from 3-point range, putting a nail in their own coffin as the Knicks advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.

Let the party begin on 7th Avenue. The New York Knicks, for the first time in 25 years, are headed to the Eastern Conference Finals. They blew out the defending champion Boston Celtics 119-81 in Game 6 at Madison Square Garden on Friday to close out their second-round series and extend what has been their most successful season since the 1999-2000 campaign.