By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
He spent four or five hours in the dentist’s chair having work done on the tooth that was knocked out in Game 1, a day after he was in oral surgery for six hours having it repositioned in his mouth. Still, he never considered not playing Tuesday night.
“The least I can do is go out there and play for her,” Thomas said after scoring 53 points – the second-highest total in Celtics playoff history – to lead Boston to a 129-119 overtime victory over the Washington Wizards. The Celtics took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals. The 53 points were the most in an NBA playoff game since Allen Iverson scored 55 in 2003, and just one shy of John Havlicek’s franchise postseason record of 54.
John Wall scored 40 points with 13 assists for Washington, which will host Games 3 and 4 on Thursday and Sunday, while Polish big man Marcin Gortat had 14 points and 10 rebounds and Croatian Bojan Bogdanovic added 2 rebounds.