"Boston sports fans can exhale, if they haven't done so already.

The Celtics aren't going to make the wrong kind of NBA history, and they're not going to be pro basketball's answer to the NHL's Bruins.

As it turns out, the Celtics were never in any real danger of becoming a part of sports infamy. Aggressors from the very start, they put the finishing touches on the Orlando Magic, 96-84, Friday night in Game 6 to reach the NBA Finals for the 21st time and second time in three years.

So there won't be a Game 7 in the Eastern Conference finals tomorrow in Orlando, and, therefore, no chance of an all-time collapse by the Celtics, who had taken a 3-0 series lead.

That has to come as a major relief to Bostonians, who are still stunned by the Bruins blowing a 3-0 lead to the Philadelphia Flyers in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Throughout New England, as the Celtics saw their lead cut to 3-2, fans were nervously drawing parallels between the teams that share TD Garden.

The Bruins, however, didn't have Nate Robinson."