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As you may have expected, Sunday’s Game 1 clash between the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat did not end without incident. Ultimately, it was Boston who secured a 114-94 victory to take a 1-0 series lead, but unsurprisingly, Miami did not go down without a fight.

This was literally almost the case in the dying moments of the game after the two teams got involved in a heated altercation after a hard foul on Jayson Tatum.

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