BOSTON — It’s an unforgiving recreation, and there was no higher proof of this than Monday night time, late, with the Celtics desperately making an attempt to halt the Knicks runaway prepare. There have been 3 minutes and 6 seconds left in Recreation 4. Boston was frantic, Madison Sq. Backyard was frenetic, and have become extra so when Mikal Bridges knocked the ball free from Jaylen Brown.
It bounced towards OG Anunoby. He began dashing to the opposite finish of the ground for a dunk that may give the Knicks a 113-104 lead with a shade over three minutes to go. That’s the place a lot of the 19,812 eyes adopted, too, and the enjoyment their rising refrain of voices produced was as giddy a soundtrack because the outdated gymnasium has heard in years.
It took some time for many of them to note the crumpled determine again on the different finish of the ground, and some extra seconds to comprehend who it was: Jayson Tatum, grabbing for his decrease proper leg, his face a visor of agony.
As a fellow athlete, and one who’s skilled greater than his share of accidents, it nonetheless by no means occurred to Anunoby to do something aside from end the play. Play now, pray later. It may be a chilly enterprise generally.
