Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce, bottom, drives to the basket past Utah Jazz guard Devin Brown, rear, in the 3rd quarter throughout their NBA basketball videogame in Boston, Wednesday Dec. 212005 (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
It is likewise the date of a videogame 5 years to the day that saw the Celtics beat the Utah Jazz 101-89 in 2005.
This videogame would have otherwise been average otherthan for one extremely uncommon reality — the Celtics did not make a single 3-point shot at any point in the videogame.
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It wasn’t for absence of attempting, though — Paul Pierce himself shot 5 of the 10 overall Boston put up throughout the course of the videogame.
It was the veryfirst time because 1999 that such an uncommon peculiarity had occurred in a videogame, a 0-of-6 affair versus the Atlanta Hawks, the fourth-longest streak in NBA history.
“It’s a action in the right instructions. Hopefully, it’s something
we can construct on,” stated Pierce after the win through ESPN.
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