It was off-day for Jeremy Lin as the Boston Celtics beat the New York Knicks in overtime thriller
Harvard graduate Jeremy Lin's return to Boston was spoiled by the Celtics who earned a 115-111 overtime victory over the New York Knicks.
Rajon Rondo was key to the Celtics' victory, with his second triple-double in three games. Rondo had 18 points, 20 assists and a career-high 17 rebounds. Paul Pierce scored 34 including a 3-pointer with 4.9 seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime.
Kevin Garnett scored 18 with 10 rebounds, and Ray Allen gave the Celtics the lead for good with a 3-pointer to make it 108-105, then followed it with a fast-break layup both on assists from Rondo.
Lin picked up two fouls in the first three minutes and struggled to 14 points in 32 minutes. He had five assists and four rebounds while shooting 6 for 16 from the floor.
When Lin was an undergraduate at Harvard, he would go to the Celtics' TD Banknorth Garden to watch games, particularly when Boston were playing the Golden State Warriors, the team he grew up rooting for in Palo Alto, California.