Holiday became the first player in NBA Finals history to achieve this feat originally appeared in NBC Sports Boston
One of the most impressive aspects of the Boston Celtics is that they have four or five players who are capable of being the best player on the team on any given night.
And in Game 2 of the 2024 NBA Finals on Sunday night, that player was Jrue Holiday.
The veteran point guard was fantastic on both ends of the court. He scored a team-high 26 points on 11-of-14 shooting, as well as a team-leading 11 rebounds. He also recorded three assists, one block and one steal in 41 minutes. when the Celtics scored a 105-98 victory to take a 2–0 series lead.
Holiday made playoff history by becoming the first player to score more than 25 points, record more than 10 rebounds, shoot 75 percent or better from the field and have zero turnovers in an NBA Finals game.
Jrue Holiday is the 9th player to record 25+ PTS, 10+ REB, and 75.0+ FG% in an NBA Finals game.
He is the only player to do this with zero turnovers (since TOs began being tracked in 1977-78). https://t.co/k7xu1OSUnx
-NBA.com/Stats (@nbastats) June 10, 2024
Holiday is also the first player with 38-plus points and zero turnovers in the first two games of an NBA Finals since Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan in 1998. by Stathead. That’s a really good company right there.
“I’m a utility guy. I’ll do anything. I’m here to win,” Holiday said told reporters after Game 2. “I feel like they brought me here to win and I will do my best to do that. But at the end of the day, this is (Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown’s) team. like theirs, but again, I feel like I’ve talked about this before, the pressure they put on themselves to perform and be great is a little different than my pressure.
“And again, I’ve always been honest about it and how they’ve always behaved has been a very honorable thing.
Holiday is averaging 19 points, 9.5 rebounds, four assists and one steal per game in the series so far. He’s a dark horse candidate for Finals MVP, but there’s still a long way to go.
The Celtics have only won two games, but it’s easy to feel good about their chances of winning Banner 18 now. They have outscored the Mavericks by a wide margin on both ends of the court through two games, and Holiday is driving much of that success.
