Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown lifts the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy after the Celtics defeated the Dallas Mavericks, 106-88, in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Monday night in Boston. Brown was named the Finals MVP after the team won its record 18th NBA title. Jayson Tatum had 31 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds as the Celtics topped the Dallas Mavericks, 106-88, on Monday night to win the franchise’s 18th championship, breaking a tie with the Lakers for the most in league history.
It helped the Celtics cap a postseason that saw them go 16-3 and finish with an 80-21 overall record. That .792 winning percentage ranks second in team history behind only the Celtics’ 1985-86 championship team that finished 82-18 . Kyrie Irving finished with just 15 points on 5-of-16 shooting and has now lost 13 of the last 14 meetings against the Celtics team he left in the summer of 2019 to join the Brooklyn Nets.Boston never trailed and led by as many as 26 feeding off the energy of the Garden crowd.
They watched current Celtics stars Tatum and Brown earn their first rings. It was the trade that sent 2008 champions Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to Brooklyn in 2013 that netted Boston the draft picks it eventually used to select Brown and Tatum third overall in back-to-back drafts in 2016 and 2017.
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