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Leapin' leprechauns: a record-setting Game 3 rally against the Nets is the latest evidence the Celtics' fortunes have turned around. (NBA).
The leprechaun has a new dancing partner. At approximately 8:30 last Saturday night, Jim O'Brien, a man usually calm in even the most unsettling of situations, sprinted to the portrait of the Celtics' mascot in the center of the FleetCenter's parquet floor.
O'Brien's Celtics had just fought back from a 21-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Nets, 94-90, in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals. Suddenly, the team's biggest believer, its coach, was screaming in a state of both disbelief and joy.
"It was purgatory," O'Brien says of his team's dire straits. "They might have been closer to hell for three quarters, but that last one was Eden. Damn, ...
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