The gritty Boston Celtics played with tremendous effort and played well enough to have a chance to steal game two in Cleveland. But it wasn’t meant to be, thanks to a man by the name of LeBron James.
James took control of the game in the final period, as he scored 15 of his game-high 30 points to give his Cavaliers a 2-0 series lead as they head into Boston for game three.
And of course, game two wouldn’t have been quite as entertaining without these electrifying highlights, courtesy of Kyrie Irving, and Kevin Love, who both connected with James in different ways for these two insane alley-oop finishes by James and Love:
This first one involves Kyrie lobbing it up to the LeBron, who throws it down angrily:
While this second one is where LeBron hits Love for a half-court reverse alley-oop:
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