The veteran guard Jason Terry scored Boston's last nine points in a 97-90 overtime win.
Pierce and Jason Terry both played their 1, 100th career game and Brooklyn's Johnson played his 900th.
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It was 61-49 when Pierce made a turnaround jumper and, after Rondo swiped Vasquez's bad pass, Jason Terry hit a 3-pointer.
Smith has endured a miserable stretch since elbowing Boston's Jason Terry in the fourth quarter of Game 3 in the first round.
The Celtics shook it off and led 20-15 when Jason Terry made a 3-pointer with 1:57 left for his first basket of the series.
Smith, who was banned from Game 4 after elbowing Jason Terry with the Knicks way ahead late in Game 3, missed finished with 14 points.
Smith, who inexplicably threw an elbow right into Jason Terry's face with 7:06 left and was thrown out of the game with a flagrant foul 2, an automatic ejection.
Things have been downhill ever since Smith hit Boston's Jason Terry with an ill-advised elbow during Game 3 of the first-round series, which landed him an ejection and one-game suspension.
Smith, back from his one-game suspension for elbowing Jason Terry with the Knicks way ahead late in Game 3, missed his first 10 shots and finished 3 of 14 for 14 points.
When he dropped Boston's Jason Terry with an elbow to the chin late in Game 3 on Friday night, Smith earned a suspension that left the New York Knicks without their No. 2 scorer during the regular season for Game 4 on Sunday.
Each of them had tasted their fair share of disappointment in the league, so there was a feel-good vibe associated with the 2008 Celtics in much the same way that there is a similar vibe for Dirk Nowitzki, Jason Kidd, Jason Terry, and the veteran-laden Dallas Mavericks team that won the 2011 title.
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Hosted by former BBC chairman Michael Grade in front of a studio audience, it will feature interviews with the likes of Sir David Attenborough, Ronnie Corbett, Noel Edmonds, Sir David Jason and Sir Terry Wogan.
CNN's Steve Almasy, Gary Morley, Terry Frieden and Jason Durand contributed to this report.
CNN's Terry Frieden in Washington and Jason Morris in Dallas contributed to this report.
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The programme featured interviews with some of the biggest names to perform at the venue, including Sir David Attenborough, Penelope Keith, Ronnie Corbett, Sir Michael Parkinson, Sir Terry Wogan and Sir David Jason.
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