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SPORTS Tuesday 23 May 2017
Celtic pride: Bradley’s last-

second shot stuns Cavaliers

TOM WITHERS points, and Bradley had 20 Despite James’ struggles,
AP Sports Writer for the Celtics, who were the Cavs led 77-56 in the
CLEVELAND (AP) — Lep- given little chance after third quarter after making
rechauns are imaginary. losing by 44 in Game 2 and 14 3-pointers in the first half.
Celtic pride is very real. then losing Thomas for the But Cleveland got compla-
Avery Bradley’s 3-pointer rest of the postseason be- cent, Smart got hot and
danced on the rim and cause of a hip injury. the Celtics, who arrived at
dropped with less than a “Everybody had to step up Quicken Loans Arena on
second left and Boston, their game tonight espe- Sunday morning for their
blown out in the first two cially with one of our broth- shootaround without Thom-
games of the Eastern Con- ers down,” Smart said. “Our as and looking somewhat
ference finals and playing love and support goes out defeated, never gave up.
without star Isaiah Thomas, to Isaiah. We wish he could “We decided were going
stunned the Cleveland be here but we under- to go out and play hard,
Cavaliers 111-108 on Sun- stand. We just kept fighting. swinging.” Bradley said.
day night in Game 3 to end Everybody did their part.” “We never counted our-
the champions’ 13-game Kyrie Irving scored 29 selves out.”
postseason winning streak. points, and Kevin Love The Celtics tied the Cavs at
Bradley’s shot from the left had 28 for Cleveland. The 95-all on Smart’s 3-pointer
wing — off a play designed Cavaliers dropped to 10-1 and then matched the
by coach Brad Stevens — in the postseason with their James and Co. basket for Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James (23) gets off a shot between
bounced on the rim four first loss since Game 4 of basket in the final minutes Boston Celtics’ Kelly Olynyk (41) and Jae Crowder (99) during
times before going down. It last year’s Finals. in one of the most enter- the second half of Game 3 of the NBA basketball Eastern Con-
capped a furious, focused Game 4 is Tuesday night in taining games of what ference finals, Sunday, May 21, 2017, in Cleveland.
Associated Press
comeback by the Celtics, Cleveland. has been a mostly boring
who trailed by 21 in the LeBron James had one postseason. Boston’s Jonas lore. James said. “We have to
third quarter before rallying of the worst games of his Jerebko’s baseline jumper For Cleveland, the loss was play a lot better. “I feel
to tighten up a series that postseason career, finish- put the Celtics ahead 108- a wake-up call on their some adversity is part of
appeared to be over. ing with 11 points and six 106 with 30 seconds left march toward a possible the postseason. If it’s going
“We have guys who have turnovers. On his way to the before Irving scored on a third straight Finals and a to happen, let it happen
chips on their shoulders,” postgame news confer- drive to tie it with 10.7 sec- seemingly inevitable re- now. Let’s regroup and get
Boston coach Brad Stevens ence, the superstar got into onds left. match with Golden State. back to playing desperate
said. “We knew that Friday an exchange with a fan Following a timeout, the The Cavs had been play- basketball, which they did
(Game 2) was a disaster. It who heckled him about his Celtics perfectly executed ing a glorified game of tonight. We’ve got to be a
wasn’t worth all four. It was rough night. a play drawn up by Ste- H.O.R.S.E. with the Warriors, lot better for sure.”
worth one. So we got back “I didn’t have it,” said vens and worked the ball who are undefeated and STREAK OVER
together.” James. “You let a team like to Bradley, who found him- can complete a sweep of James’ run of scoring at
Smart, who started in place that grab momentum you self open and then calmly San Antonio on Monday least 30 points ended
of Thomas, made seven almost knew a shot like that knocked down a shot that night. “I’m kind of glad it at eight straight playoff
3-pointers and scored 27 was going in.” goes straight into Celtics happened the way it did,” games. q

NBA’s Kanter Kanter makes no secret of Spokesman Fabian Badila
his support of Turkish cleric
told The Associated Press
Fethullah Gulen, who op- that Kanter arrived Satur-
poses Erdogan. Kanter day at about 1 p.m. from
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said that when he was Frankfurt at Bucharest’s
detained in Romania, he Henri Coanda Airport, trav-
Kanter has long been a feared he would be sent eling on a Turkish passport.
critic of Turkish President back to Turkey. “My colleagues discov-
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Kanter said he has not spo- ered ... that the passport
whom he has likened to ken with his parents and had been canceled by
Adolf Hitler on multiple oc- other relatives in Turkey in Turkish authorities, and le-
casions. Kanter contends, more than a year. gally he is not allowed to
among other things, that “There’s no democracy. enter Romania,” Badila
a failed coup attempt last There’s no freedom of said.
year was actually staged speech, freedom of reli- Kanter has been in the
by the Erdogan-led gov- gion. It’s definitely been In this April 11, 2017, file photo, Oklahoma City Thunder’s Enes NBA for six seasons. He av-
ernment. crazy,” Kanter said. “Right Kanter, of Turkey, looks on during a break in the second half of eraged 14.3 points and 6.7
“I call it the fake coup at- now, even if I tried to com- an NBA basketball game against the Minnesota Timberwolves rebounds this season for
tempt,” Kanter said. “Last municate with my parents, in Minneapolis. the Thunder.
year, they did a fake coup my mom, my dad, my Associated Press He said it’s his understand-
attempt themselves, so brother or sister, they would ing that the process to be-
they can control every- probably right now listen Kanter has a green card and he also likely would come a U.S. citizen can
thing. So right now, the Er- on their phones and as for entry to the U.S. but no not be able to enter Can- take five years, though he
dogan government is con- soon as they are in contact passport, which is problem- ada without the passport hopes that can be accel-
trolling the army, control- with me they’ll put them in atic on several fronts. He — a problem considering erated in his case.
ling the police, controlling a jail. And the jails are not had several international Oklahoma City plays once “I feel like this is my home
judges, controlling journal- fun, of course.” trips planned this summer each season in Toronto.
ists, everything.” on his foundation’s behalf, Romanian Border Police now,” Kanter said.q