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Heat vs Celtics Live Free Stream: The Celtics are more battle-tested, having survived a seven-game series with the defending champion Toronto Raptors. They allowed 10.5 fewer points per 100 possessions in that series than the Raptors scored in the regular season.

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For example, many people expected the first-place Milwaukee Bucks to at least reach the conference finals after dominating the regular season with the league’s best record. But the Bucks’ run was halted by the Heat, who eliminated Milwaukee in just five games during the conference semifinals.
The Celtics needed seven games to eliminate the defending champion Toronto Raptors and reach the conference finals for the third time in the last four years. Boston’s two previous conference finals appearances over that span ended in disappointment — a five-game loss in 2017 and a Game 7 defeat in 2018, both to LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers.

One x-factor for the Celtics is the potential return of veteran forward Gordon Hayward, who sprained his ankle in Game 1 of the first round against the Philadelphia 76ers and hasn’t played since. Getting Hayward backs would give Boston another versatile scorer, a quality outside shooter and a primary ball-handler who can start or come off the bench.

Here are the latest betting lines and prop bets for the Celtics vs. Heat series and the playoffs as a whole.Jimmy Butler was four bounces away from the conference finals last year, and when he left the Philadelphia 76ers for the Miami Heat, few thought he’d get that close anytime soon. One popular take was that winning was less important to him than being the go-to guy.
Before the season started, though, Butler told Andrew Sharp, then of Sports Illustrated, that he believed in his new team. “Truthfully,” he said, “I think we can compete for a championship. I do.” He acknowledged that the stars would need to align, but insisted that “nobody on this roster is scared of anybody.”

At the time, it was easy to dismiss this as typical Butler bluster. The same was true when, before, the playoffs started, he told ESPN’s Rachel Nichols that he thought the Heat could win a title and he didn’t care what anybody said.
Butler is now in the conference finals for the first time in his career, and Miami is there for the first time since LeBron James left. It’s 2012 all over again. After enduring the painful rebuilding cycles associated with older contenders, the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics have made it back to the same stage where they famously battled it out for a spot in the NBA Finals eight years ago, but with very different names. LeBron James and Paul Pierce are gone, replaced by Jayson Tatum and Jimmy Butler. On both rosters, only Udonis Haslem remains, and that sets the tone for this series.

As much history as these organizations share, this is a matchup neither knows particularly well nor could possibly be prepared for. After all, assuming that the No. 3 and No. 5 seeds would reach the Eastern Conference finals would be somewhat foolhardy under normal circumstances. But Boston and Miami defied the odds, and now we have not only one of the most surprising final four matchups in NBA history, but one of the most exciting.

Here’s everything you need to know about the Eastern Conference finals. The Celtics always expected to lose Hayward for some length of time during the postseason. His wife is pregnant with their fourth child and is due in late September. Hayward made it clear that he planned to leave the bubble to be with his family. And then he sprained his ankle in Game 1 of Boston’s first-round victory over the Philadelphia 76ers, and things got a whole lot more complicated.
Hayward was given a four-week recovery timeline, and left the bubble to rehab with his family in Indiana. Those four weeks have now passed, and Hayward has returned to the bubble. He cleared quarantine Friday and sat on the sideline for Boston’s Game 7 victory over Toronto. His coach was optimistic but uncertain about his status. “I think he’ll be back at some point in that series, but I don’t know when,” Brad Stevens told reporters Friday.
This is where things become more complicated. Hayward has given no indication that his plans have changed. But if his return is still a ways off and he just plans to leave the bubble again towards the end of the month anyway, why return at all? Obviously playing even a single game is better than missing out entirely, but the idea of multiple exits and quarantines doesn’t seem like a great recovery environment for an injured player.
For now, the assumption should be that Hayward is moving towards a full recovery, but that he still plans to leave the Celtics when his wife is ready to give birth. But Hayward’s return to the bubble should at least raise some eyebrows. If he planned to leave again so soon, it’s worth wondering why he returned at all. He also made that declaration before the playoffs started.

Now, his Celtics are not only in the Eastern Conference finals (a stage of the postseason he has never personally participated in) but are favored in that series with the top two seeds now out of the picture. The vague idea of leaving a playoff run is one thing. The reality of abandoning a possible championship opportunity when it’s staring you in the face may be another. Only three post-merger players have ever led an NBA Finalist in scoring in their first three seasons. Boston knows Larry Bird quite well. The Heat can say the same of Shaquille O’Neal. Tim Duncan’s final Finals appearance came at Miami’s expense. If the Celtics have their way, Jayson Tatum’s first will as well, and if this turns into a one-on-one duel with Miami’s more seasoned Jimmy Butler, there is no obvious favorite. Despite Butler’s wealth of experience, their career postseason numbers are nearly identical.
It’s been 51 years since we didn’t have the 1 or 2 seed in the Eastern Conference finals (and it was known as the “Eastern Division” back then), but this has been a unique postseason in more ways than one. And even before the season took a 20-week break, the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat were certainly capable of getting here.
The Celtics were the only East team that ranked in the top five in both offensive and defensive efficiency in the regular season. The Heat, meanwhile, had the best record (11-6) in regular season games played between the top six teams in the East.Miami had a easier route to the conference finals, sweeping the Indiana Pacers and dispatching the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks in five games. They scored 10.5 more points per 100 possessions in the conference semis than the Bucks allowed in the regular season.