Celtics Ready to Take the Heat

Blazing Boston face red-hot Miami back home after perfect six wins on road trip

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BOSTON – The Boston Celtics are one of the few National Basketball Association (NBA) teams with a better record on the road than at home this season, but they have a chance to narrow that gap on April 2 (April 3, Singapore time) when they host the red-hot Miami Heat.

Boston (56-19) are coming off a 6-0 road trip that raised the team's road record to 32-7, compared to their home tally of 24-12. It marked the longest road trip without a loss in franchise history, topping a 5-0 trip by the Celtics in February 1973.

Boston won all six games by double digits, with an average victory margin of 17.8 points.

"It's special any time you make history in this league," Jayson Tatum said, following Boston's 117-103 victory on March 31 against the Memphis Grizzlies. "You have to enjoy that. Six games; 12 or 13 days away from home.

"Just a mindset of what we did last year," he added. "We won a championship and the idea that regardless of your record or your seed, you have to win some games on the road in the playoffs if you want to be a champion. Kind of establish that mindset throughout the regular season."

Boston will enter the April 2 matchup on a nine-game winning streak, with victories in 14 of their last 15 games.