Bringing the ball up with seven seconds left, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander didn't need much time to score one last bucket before the halftime break. He bumped into Jaylen Brown before a double-team could form with Jrue Holiday and banked in a one-handed mid-range jumper that probably should've been an and-one.

Alexander was almost gone an hour before Celtics leadership, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, departed TD Garden.  All he left behind was a trail. A symbol. A signal. His logo, a mirrored emblem of his No.