The Miami Heat use a big Third quarter to win Game 1 over the Boston Celtics , despite being out-toughed by Jimmy Butler

MIAMI -- The Boston Celtics exited their locker room at halftime Tuesday night time in manipulate of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals.

But then the 1/3 quarter happened. After the Heat demolished the Celtics, outscoring them 39-14 and the use of their physicality to ship Boston into a loss of life spiral of miscues and unforced errors, Miami was once on its way to a 118-107 victory to take the opening recreation of this best-of-seven affair. 

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he 2nd contest in the seven-game collection is on Thursday in Miami. The Golden State Warriors and the Dallas Mavericks contest their Western Conference finals opener on Wednesday, with the winners of the respective sequence assembly in June's finals.

The 40-point effort was once Butler's fifth in the postseason for the duration of his three-season stint with the Heat. The solely participant with greater is franchise icon Dwyane Wade with seven.
"I understand what I'm successful of, I do not do this to rating forty points," Butler said
"I play the way I play to win by way of all skill essential and it simply so occurred that I rating forty If I rating forty and lose, I'll be especially [ticked] off."