Celtics take lead in NBA playoff series

Agence France-Presse

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Glen Davis scored 10 of his game-high 22 points while Stephon Marbury scored all of his 12 points in the fourth quarter for the Celtics who seized a three to two series lead.

"Toughness, a lot of character, when you go through trials and tribulations like that during the game, and to come back and win is unbelievable," said Davis. "Our guys showed a lot of character. Stephon Marbury led the charge in the second half, and made some things happen, and that energy fed me."

The Celtics will try to wrap the best-of-seven series up tonight in game six in Orlando.

Ray Allen nailed a three pointer with 80 seconds left in a fourth quarter where Davis and Marbury combined to shoot nine-of-11 from the field in the final frame.

Boston's Paul Pierce finished with 19 points, nine rebounds and eight assists while Allen scored 13 points.

Rashard Lewis scored 19 points and Turkish forward Hidayet "Hedo" Türkoğlu scored 18 for the Magic, while Dwight Howard finished with 12 points and 17 rebounds.

"It's just a game that really hurts you know that you had it under control all night and the last few minutes it's slipping away...it really hurts," said Türkoğlu. "We got nothing else to do right now. We can't really be down on ourselves and think about it. All we have to do, just be a strong team, get ourselves together, win in Orlando and come back here and try to finish it here."

"I think defensively we didn't pressure like we did when we built the lead and offensively we didn't do what we did to get the lead," said Dwight Howard.