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Celtics Finish Sweep of Pacers

Gordon Hayward scored 20 points, Marcus Morris added 18 and the duo combined for five 3s over the final 5 1/2 minutes to give Boston a 110-106 victory and its first 4-0 series victory in eight years.

 

They won the first three games on the strength of a suffocating second-half defense that twice limited the Pacers 12-point quarters and once to eight. This time, they finished the job by grinding it out behind a group of polished veterans.

 

The game swung when Indiana guard Cory Joseph was called for a Flagrant 1 foul with 6:45 left. Jayson Tatum made both free throws to give Boston an 83-82 lead. After Al Horford made 1 of 2 free throws on Boston's next possession and then Morris knocked down a 3 and Hayward completed a three-point play to give the Celtics a 90-83 advantage with 4:15 to go.

 

Hayward and Morris were just getting started. Over the next three-plus minutes, they made three more 3s to give Boston a 102-90 lead with 1:04 to go.

 

Even a final flurry of 3s couldn't bail out Indiana. Bojan Bogdanovic scored 22 points and Tyreke Evans scored a playoff career-high 21 as the Pacers got swept for the second time in three years - the only two times it has happened in franchise history.

 

Kyrie Irving had 14 points and seven assists. Tatum had 18 points and eight rebounds and Morris also had eight rebounds. 

 

Al Horford had 14 points, 12 rebounds and five assists.

 

Jaylen Brown added 13 points and Terry Rozier added 11 off the bench. 

 

Boston was 11 of 28 on 3s, 5 of 7 in the fourth.

 

Darren Collison had 19 points, six rebounds and five assists. Young added nine points and nine rebounds. 

 

Domantas Sabonis scored 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds while Myles Turner had 13 points and seven rebounds.

 

The Pacers shot 40.9 percent from the field in the game and missed more than a handful of shots at the rim.

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