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Feeling green in a New York minute

Everyone wrote off the Celtics with the Knicks up 3-0, but things have changed

Updated: May 2, 2013, 2:56 AM ET
By Jackie MacMullan | ESPNBoston.com

NEW YORK -- Hold on a minute.

The dudes in green have decreed they aren't done yet.

The Boston Celtics' core veterans banded together, withstood a staggering 11-0 deficit in the opening minutes, then knocked the swagger out of a stunned New York Knicks team by stealing Game 5 in their vaunted Madison Square Garden with equal parts poise, pride and precision Wednesday night.

The word buzzing around the buoyant, yet restrained Celtics locker room in the wake of the team's 92-86 ...

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