Schedule and 2009-10 Results
Regular Season Records: Cleveland 61-21, Boston 50-32
Game 1 on Saturday, 01 May: Boston loses at Cleveland, 101-pts-93
Game 2 on Monday, 03 May: Boston wins at Cleveland, 104-pts-86
Game 3 on Friday, 07 May: Cleveland wins at Boston, 124-pts-95
Game 4 on Sunday, 09 May: Cleveland loses at Boston, 97-pts-87
Game 5 on Tuesday, 11 May: Boston wins at Cleveland, 120-pts-88
Game 6 on Thursday, 13 May: Cleveland loses at Boston, 94-pts-85

SERIES NOTES:

Post-series assessment: The Boston Celtics defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 4-games-2 in MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1112. With the series 1112 win, the Boston Celtics improve their best-of-7 NBA playoff series record to 58-19 overall and 18-6 in the Quarterfinals. With the series 1112 loss, the Cleveland Cavaliers see their best-of-7 NBA playoff series record fall to 10-8 overall and 4-4 in the Quarterfinals. The victorious Boston Celtics posted a series 1112 win order of LWLWWW: Series 1112 thus becomes the fifth NBA Quarterfinals, the tenth NBA series (all rounds), and the 30th MLB/NBA/NHL series (all rounds) to follow this win order to completion. In series 1112, the Cleveland Cavaliers lose a best-of-7 NBA playoff series in which they had won Game 1 for the first time, and now sport an 8-1 best-of-7 NBA playoff series record upon having won Game 1. In series 1112 Game 1, Cleveland trailed the visiting Boston Celtics 54-pts-43 at half-time, but rallied to win 101-pts-93: In the history of best-of-7 NBA playoff series from 1947 through the 2010 NBA Preliminary round, teams trailing by 11 points at half-time irrespective of site had a game record of only 15-94 (.138). In retrospect, the Game 1 rally mattered little.