NBA Finals- Lakers look to even series with Celtics in game four
Jun 12
Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett must bounce back from horrible shooting performances if the Boston Celtics are to keep the Los Angeles Lakers from leveling the National Basketball Association Finals.
The Lakers dropped the first two games in Boston but can pull even in the best-of-seven championship series with a victory in game four here Thursday after shutting down the Celtics’ top scorers in a 108-102 game three triumph. “We’re a pretty confident bunch,” Lakers star Kobe Bryant said. “It’s just about doing what we’ve got to do to win. You just go out there, do the things you’ve been taught and control the things you can.”
The Lakers have won 15 in a row at home and are 9-0 at home in this year’s playoffs, one victory shy of matching the one-season NBA home playoff win streak record, while the Celtics are only 2-8 on the road in the playoffs. “This is where they are comfortable. They have a lot of confidence playing in this building and we have to somehow, some way diffuse that,” Garnett said.
A Boston victory would put the Celtics on the verge of their first NBA crown since 1986 and record 17th overall while the Lakers could move halfway to a 15th NBA crown and their first since 2002.
Game four of the NBA finals between Lakers and Celtics will be telecast as a same day delay on ESPN at 14.00 IST. For those of you who want to catch the game live, you can log on to NBA.com and catch the game live.
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