Cavaliers' comeback win over Celtics give them confidence they can compete with defending champs
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What followed was three quarters of frenetic basketball that concluded with 41 points by Mitchell
BOSTON (AP) — With Celtics fans in a frenzy throughout TD Garden after the Boston Celtics blitzed to a 25-3 lead over the Cavaliers in the final matchup of Eastern Conference frontrunners, Cleveland star Donovan Mitchell didn’t panic.
He actually was in a calm place.
“Everything that could have possibly went wrong, went wrong. At that point, you could only go up from there,” Mitchell said after posting his first 40-point game this season. “That’s been our challenge all year. How do you respond? And we did.”
What followed was three quarters of frenetic basketball that concluded with 41 points by Mitchell and a breakout night by teammate Evan Mobley that added up to a 123-116 win and a ninth straight victory by the Cavs team that earned a season split with a Celtics team they could very well see in the playoffs.
The Celtics led throughout before the Cavaliers settled in and took their first lead of the game, 104-101 in the fourth quarter.
