Paul Pierce scored 14 points on 4-for-18 shooting, making one of nine 3-point attempts.
Paul Pierce led Boston with 29 points, Green added 26 and Terry had 18.
This is not to say that Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett have reached the end.
Paul Pierce is paddling up the court and hitting pressure three-pointers like it's a summer league game.
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Paul Pierce had 20 points to lead Boston, which had its own run of five straight wins broken.
"There's that one quarter where we have mental lapses, " forward Paul Pierce said.
Teamed with Paul Pierce, the Big Three led Boston to the 2008 title.
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So far, Woodson has opted to put Shumpert on the opposing team's best scorer, such as Boston's Paul Pierce.
Less than 12 months after being acquired, they along with Paul Pierce and the rest of the Boston Celtics were NBA Champions.
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Paul Pierce scored 18 points for the Celtics, who will host Game 3 on Friday in their first home game since the Boston Marathon bombings.
Paul Pierce scored 12 points with 10 rebounds before fouling out in the final minutes as the Celtics' six-game winning streak came to an end.
The resolute Paul Pierce at 34, still one of the NBA's best with the game on the line was named Eastern Conference's Player of the Month for March.
Beyond that, Shumpert the team's top on-ball defender and best answer for Celtics swingman Paul Pierce has shot better than Kidd against Boston this season, and has outperformed Kidd this month.
Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett missed layups on the same possession to start the game, and it was clear right from there this wasn't the Celtics' night or their series.
Jeff Green scored 18 points and Paul Pierce had 16 as he and Garnett, the two franchise stalwarts, extended this season and perhaps their Celtics careers at least one more game.
And before the Garnett incident, Knick fans hated Boston's Paul Pierce, who has antagonized them and Garden courtside super fan Spike Lee with big shot after big shot to close out games over the years.
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.
Knicks swingman Iman Shumpert tied the game at 74 when he got a lay-in after picking the pocket of Boston's Paul Pierce, but the squads would play to a stalemate over the final seven minutes of regulation.
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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.
"Right now a lot of emotions, a lot of thoughts go through your head about the season, about what you could have done better tonight to keep the season going, about the future, " Paul Pierce said after struggling to a 14-point night.
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.
"I think when you go through tragedy as a city you kind of look for something to cling on, and really I believe that the city of Boston lives and dies with our sports teams and they're going to be watching closely, " longtime Celtics star Paul Pierce said.
And the Knicks nearly roared back to beat the Celtics in Boston on Sunday if not for Paul Pierce's late Paul Pierce-ness, it would have been a sweet win on national TV (we won't speak about that desolate overtime.) They performed a similar comeback in the second half Tuesday against the Mavericks in Dallas, but as soon as they seized the lead, they frustratingly let it slip.
You got guys like Kevin (Garnett) and Paul (Pierce) who've been in a lot of playoff series, and everyone takes a life of its own.
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