INSTANT REACTION: SAD NEWS! NO BODY EXPECT THIS TO HAPPEN ON BOSTON CELTIC PERFORMANCE….

Celtics’ loss to Heat in Game 7 was a meltdown of epic proportions in Boston sports

Jayson Tatum scored 14 points and shot just 5 on 13 in Game 7.
Jayson Tatum scored 14 points and shot just 5 on 13 in Game 7.JIM DAVIS/GLOBE STAFF
There have been some stink bombs detonated by Boston teams in big games throughout the decades.

This may have been the most foul of all.

On a postcard-perfect Memorial Day, with the entire region braced for an 0-3 comeback that would mirror what those Curse-busting Red Sox did 19 years ago, the poser Celtics submitted a woeful Game 7 effort in the Eastern Conference finals and were thrashed by the so-much-mentally-tougher, eighth-seeded Miami Heat, 103-84, Monday night at the Garden.

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