At TD Garden in Boston, Jayson Tatum tied the game with a jumpshot with 1.8 seconds left in the fourth quarter and the Boston Celtics would top the Indiana Pacers 101-98 in overtime.
Boston (20-21) never trailed over the first three quarters leading by as many as 12, before Indiana (15-26) made a fourth quarter rally. The Pacers took their first lead on a Domantas Sabonis layup with 5:54 to go, and led by four on two different occasions in the final 1:17 of the fourth quarter. Robert Williams III cut it to 89-87 with two free throws with 34.6 seconds left, and after an Indiana miss with 15 seconds remaining Tatum would send the game to the extra session. The Celtics built a five point lead in overtime on a Grant Williams three-pointer, and after the Pacers cut it to one with three seconds showing on the clock Tatum hit two free throws to push it back to three. Indiana never got a chance at a tying shot as Williams III picked off a bad pass for a turnover to end it. Jaylen Brown led Boston with 26 points, 15 rebounds, and six assists. Tatum finished with 24 points and 12 rebounds. The two teams play again in Indiana Wednesday night.
At Capital One Arena, the Boston Bruins scored six unanswered goals after falling behind 2-0 and would skate away with a 7-3 win over the Washington Capitals.
Connor Sheary scored at 3:02 and 12:32 of the first period to make it 2-0 Washington (20-8-9). David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand scored 40 seconds apart both on the powerplay at 18:34 and 19:14 to even the score after 20 minutes. The Bruins (19-11-2) got a goal from Matt Grzelcyk 2:51 into the second and never trailed again. The game winner came off the stick of Craig Smith at 7:52 of the second. Grzelcyk had a goal and four assists, Pastrnak and Marchand both had two goals and an assist, and Smith had a goal and one assist in the win. Taylor Hall and Anton Blidh also had two assists each, and Linus Ullmark made 27 saves in net. Boston is now 5-1 in their last six games and will host Montreal on Wednesday night.
