Celtics dropped a 11 game-winning streak by losing to the Raptors

 

The Celtics grabbed their first lost in 11 games against the Raptors 114-112. This was a game between the NBA's best 3-point-shooting team (Toronto) and the best team on the league on defense against 3 pointers, Boston.

The Raptors had 4 players scoring more than 20 points including Jose Calderon with 24 and 13 assists, Anthony Parker with 23, Chris Bosh also with 23 and Andrea Bargnani with 20 points while for the Celtics Kevin Garnett finished with a season-high 26 points and 7 rebounds, Ray Allen along with Paul Pierce each had 19 points and Tony Allen ended with 15 points.

It was a game about who’s leading who since the Raptors had the edge 57-55 in the first half due to the bunch of 3 pointers thrown by Toronto, but the Celtics also had their own ration of 3 pointer shots and were leading in the third 91-84.

At the fourth and with 10:31 left on the clock, Boston was still holding the numbers on their favor 94-86 but soon the Raptors took the advantage thanks to some free throws by Jose Calderon, then with 14.9 seconds left, Ray Allen threw a 17-footer to put the things 112-111 with Boston leading, but Jose Calderon gave the Raptors the victory by converting a layup and finishing with a 2 pointer free throw thanks to a fault by Rajon Rondo.

"It was really important to beat them - so we could see if we could, we knew how to play them after already playing them three times." Calderon said.