No team has come back from down 3-0 to win a series in NBA playoffs history (0-156 overall and 0-14 in the Finals), and just four teams in those 156 series have forced a Game 7. The Mavericks are back at American Airlines Center — though they’re not dramatically better at home than on the road in the playoffs but the excitement of a Finals game in Dallas should provide some boost especially for Kyrie Irving,

Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown each scored at least 30 points, just the second time in Finals history for a Boston duo.

Porzingis had missed 10 games for the Celtics in these playoffs with a calf injury, but he returned last week for the Finals and was terrific in the first two games of the series off the bench, totaling 32 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks in 44 minutes.