2023 Awards Series Game of the Year: Game 7 vs. 76ers

It’s awards season at Celtics.com! We’re handing out six awards over the final 10 days of July as we roll through this year’s Celtics.com Awards Series. We may not have trophies or acceptance speeches, but we do have some top-flight Celtics performances to outline. Here we go...

For the second straight season, the Boston Celtics overcame a 3-2 deficit in the second round of the playoffs to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.

And for the second straight season, a dominant and historic Game 7 conference semifinals performance at TD Garden has earned our Game of the Year award.

Following a tight, Game 6 victory in Philadelphia, the Celtics stepped back on their home court and took care of business in a convincing fashion.

Boston’s defense was suffocating in a 112-88 drubbing of its Atlantic Division rival, while Jayson Tatum was masterful on the other end, pouring in 51 points to break Stephen Curry’s Game 7 record which had just been set two weeks prior.

The game drew remarkable parallels to last season’s ECSF Game 7 victory at TD Garden where the C’s dismantled the Milwaukee Bucks, 109-81, as Grant Williams knocked down seven 3-pointers to tie Curry’s Game 7 long-distance record.