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It appears that the Atlanta Hawks have the Boston Celtics’ number.
Atlanta guard Dejounte Murray knocked down a game-winning jumpshot in the final second of overtime to give the Hawks a 123-122 victory over the Celtics on Thursday – their second win against the team with the best record in the NBA this week.
On Monday night, Atlanta completed the biggest comeback in Hawks history when it came back from 30 points down to stun Boston, which has already locked up the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference.
After a closely contested battle that required OT to separate the two sides, the Celtics thought they had the game won when All-Star wing Jaylen Brown drilled a tough contested midrange shot to put Boston up by one with just over six seconds to go.
Murray then took matters into his own hands, isolating against lauded defender Jrue Holiday and rising up to shoot the game-winning field goal, which found the bottom of the bucket with 0.1 seconds left on the clock.
“We competed against the best team in the NBA,” Murray said postgame. “My guys showed up, we all showed up. No excuses on a back-to-back … we were ready to come and play and we got a great win.”
Murray caught fire in OT, scoring all of the Hawks’ 11 points in the additional…
