But Kevin Garnett hit a 16-footer jumper to tie the game 11 seconds later.
This is not to say that Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett have reached the end.
Winners of two straight, the Celtics may be without veteran forward Kevin Garnett on Monday.
After the 2006-07 season, the Boston Celtics acquired Ray Allen from Seattle and Kevin Garnett from Minnesota.
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Felton, who had 27 points, and Boston's Kevin Garnett each hit jumpers in the final minute and change, forcing overtime.
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"We have to figure out the offensive side of the ball and not be so stagnated, " Boston's Kevin Garnett said.
But a couple of those Knicks victories came when Kevin Garnett rested, so they expect to see a better Boston team.
But neither Ray Allen nor Kevin Garnett held one-hour television specials announcing what team they were going to in July 2007.
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If they did, then the media and general public would have similarly demonized Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen 3 years ago.
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It was three years before Kevin Garnett jumped directly from high school to the NBA, and college-championship teams were built with veteran players.
They cleared enough salary cap space during the losing years to acquire veteran stars Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen for the 2007-08 season.
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Anthony sustained the injury on April 14, in a regular-season game against the Celtics, when Boston forward Kevin Garnett appeared to grab Anthony's left arm.
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It was first hurt against the Pacers in April, then aggravated when Kevin Garnett pulled on his arm while setting a screen during the first-round series.
The victory was impressive-looking, but it again came without Boston having its heart and soul, defensive anchor Kevin Garnett, who is still recovering from a bad ankle.
He was waiting to speak to the Celtic antagonist Kevin Garnett, and it's safe to assume he was not there to ask Garnett out for pomegranate mojitos.
Kevin Garnett had 16 points and 18 rebounds and the Celtics stayed alive in the playoffs, cutting New York's lead to 3-2 with a 92-86 victory Wednesday night.
Kevin Garnett has rented a two-bedroom apartment in Anthony's head.
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While Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett and a few other players may come close to matching his greatness over the last 10 years, none of them can reach his level.
We are in hearty agreement that we are all responsible adults striving to be civil and decorous and should not do things like look for Kevin Garnett on a bus.
Kevin Garnett had 16 points and 18 rebounds for the Celtics, who need two victories to become the first NBA team to overcome a 3-0 deficit to win a series.
McGrady looks as though he may be well on his way to unseating Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett for the unofficial title of 'best player to join the NBA straight from high school.
Made the fatal mistake of hitching entire franchise to one mega star, something small market teams in the NBA should never, ever do (has anyone heard from the Minnesota Timberwolves since Kevin Garnett bolted for Boston?).
But the Celtics lost the finale 88-80 despite scoring 20 straight points in the fourth quarter and began an offseason of uncertainty with Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett possibly having played their last game in Boston uniforms.
Even last year's Lakers-Celtics final, which Bryant headlined along with fellow superstars Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, drew an average of just 10.6 million viewers and a 17 share, placing it in the bottom six since 1986.
The Celtics had some momentum midway through the third period, when they went on a 9-2 run, but it was snuffed out by a questionable offensive foul called on Boston's Kevin Garnett, who'd set a hard screen at halfcourt.
Kevin Garnett had 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Celtics, who now face another offseason of talk whether to break up the aging core that won the franchise's record 17th NBA title in 2008 and returned to the finals two years later.
Lebron James looked at the careers of stars like Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, who were All Stars but unable to win a Championship until they left their mediocre teams and joined forces with Paul Pierce to form the BIG 3 of the Boston Celtics.
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