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Jayson Tatum scored 33 points as the Boston Celtics kept alive their NBA play-offs by beating the Miami Heat.<\/span><\/p>\n Jaylen Brown added 17 points and Derrick White 16 in a 116-99 win for the Celtics, who would have been eliminated with a defeat.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The second seeds trail 3-1 in the best-of-seven series going into game five on Thursday (01:30 BST Friday).<\/span><\/p>\n “Now we just have to go win another one, that’s all that matters,” said Celtics guard Marcus Smart.<\/span><\/p>\n No team in NBA play-off history has ever recovered from a 3-0 deficit to win a series.<\/span><\/p>\n “We’re taking one game at a time,” Smart added. “We understand that the odds are stacked us, but we’re a team that believes in us no matter what, and all that matters is the next game.”<\/span><\/p>\n Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla, who blamed himself for their below-par display in their <\/span>128-102 loss in game three,<\/span><\/a> added: “We have to keep that same level of intensity, same mindset, same focus for the next game.”<\/span><\/p>\n Jimmy Butler scored 29 points in reply for the Miami Heat, who are hoping to become just the second eighth-seeded team to advance to the NBA Finals after the New York Knicks in 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n “We have to play like our backs are against the wall,” said Butler. “All year long, we’ve been better when we have to do things the hard way.”<\/span><\/p>\n Caleb Martin, who added 16 points off the bench for the Heat, said: “It’s definitely disappointing. That would have been a perfect situation [to end it]. Everyone knows we typically don’t get things the easy way.”<\/span><\/p>\n The winners will play the Denver Nuggets after they completed a 4-0 Western Conference championship sweep <\/span>over the Los Angeles Lakers<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n