Isaiah Thomas scored a career-high 42 points as the main offensive force behind the Boston Celtics' 111-103 win over the Atlanta Hawks in Game 3 at the TD Garden in Boston on Friday, cutting his team's series deficit to 2-1.
The All-Star point guard's scoring outburst led the Celtics, who had five players score in double figures. Evan Turner scored 17 points, and Amir Johnson contributed with 15.
The Celtics took to Twitter to celebrate the first playoff victory of the head coach Brad Stevens era:
Atlanta had four players score in double figures. Jeff Teague had 23 points, while backup point guard Dennis Schroder had 20. Kent Bazemore also had 20 points, and Kyle Korver had 17.
But it wasn't enough to give the Hawks a commanding 3-0 lead in the series, per Mike Conti of 92.9 FM in Atlanta:
Paul Millsap and Al Horford combined for only 16 points, as Atlanta shot 44.2 percent from the floor and 9-of-36 from three-point range. Boston, meanwhile, made 11 threes, with five of them coming from Thomas.
After he shot 33 perc ...
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