The contest between the Boston Celtics and Oklahoma City Thunder last night was one of the best games of the 2025-26 season. Even with both teams undermanned, it was bound to be epic to see the two most recent NBA Champions go head to head with one another.
The only problem was how it ended: free throws. Both the Celtics and the Thunder played the game's very last play ingeniously: the Thunder didn't call timeout to prevent the Celtics from subbing in a big man to cover Chet Holmgren on the board while the Celtics did everything in their power to force the ball out of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's hands and made Alex Caruso take the last shot.