With one second left in the first quarter, Boston Celtics point guard Derrick White passed the basketball down the court to All-NBA star Jayson Tatum, who slammed it through the hoop and hung on the rim.
Down 13 points just a few minutes into play, the Celtics were back in the game, trailing by just one point, and the crowd at the Town MV in Edgartown was on its feet.
Last night, the Celtics claimed their third consecutive win against the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals. Islanders and tourists alike gathered in bars and restaurants to watch the boys in green inch one step closer to their record-setting 18th NBA championship.
"I don’t know how they could lose," Everett Hazelton told the Gazette while watching the game at the Wharf Pub in Edgartown. "They’ve just got to keep doing what they’re doing. There’s no weak point. It’s ridiculous. They’re unbelievable."
At the Town, server Camilla Tamargo wore a Celtics jersey for the night’s festivities. Game night at the Town, she said, was usually pretty lively.
“We get a good bunch of people... it’s our year-round crowd with a few more peppered in,” she said. Stephan Sha and Dylan Maulucci, both working at the Edgartown Golf Club, were taking in the game at the Town with coworkers—a regular Wednesday night outing, they said.
Mr. Sha, a lifelong Lakers fan from Beijing, said that as long as he was in New England, he had the Celtics’ back. Mr. Maulucci, of Buffalo, New York, said he’d been a Celtics fan since boyhood and was confident the Celtics would win game three, provided team star Jayson Tatum could step up.
At the Wharf, Bill Camarda mentioned he was on the Island for just a few days and had come out Wednesday night to watch the game.
Mr. Camarda said he was a Celtics fan as long as the team didn’t “get in their own head and play down to the competition.”
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