[HOUSTON -- The streak ended with a roar, a grimacing, menacing roar that came from the man who put an emphatic punctuation mark on one of the Boston Celtics' most impressive victories in a season full of them.
"It was an exclamation point," Paul Pierce said of Kevin Garnett's emphatic slam dunk over Luis Scola with 2:08 left. The dunk put the Celtics ahead by 25 points Tuesday night in what ended up as a 94-74 victory over Houston, ending the Rockets' winning streak at 22.
It was the second-longest winning streak in NBA history, but the streak itself was somewhat of an afterthought in each locker room following the game. Instead, the hot topic was the way the Celtics dominated the second half of a game that was tied after two quarters.
"In my 11 years in the NBA, that's the best defense I've ever seen," Tracy McGrady said afterward.
And as we've seen over the course of this season, the Boston Celtics at their best are one hell of an impressive team. Not only did they shut down the Rockets, they buzzkilled the team with the monster winning streak that everyone in the NBA couldn't stop talking about. So if this one game was a precursor of what's in store in the next couple months, we're all going to be talking about the Celtics a lot more than we'll be discussing the Rockets.]-ESPN
Wow. It was a good run. Gotta respect thee road to 22 straight wins and ofcourse the team who broke that streak. Its like in NBA Jam super nintendo version when someone got on fire, it was serious labor to get them off of "fire".
