https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1988/06/04/celtics-are-knocked-out-by-pistons-95-90/66bf0045-89ef-456c-ab78-3f63e909167c/ By Michael Wilbon - June 4, 1988 PONTIAC, MICH., JUNE 3 -- The Detroit Pistons had seen too many Boston Celtics escape acts to let this blessed chance get away. The Pistons had seen the Celtics take games, series, even championships after they were left for dead. The Pistons, victims themselves as recently as last season, promised they wouldn't give the Celtics another chance to breathe, and kept their word. With the third largest crowd in NBA playoff history on hand, the Pistons proved beyond doubt tonight they are the best team in the East by eliminating the Celtics, 95-90, in Game 6. Those who thought the Celtics, in what would be Coach K.C. Jones last game, were up for one more improbable, inspirational, non-sensical victory knew better shortly into the second half, by which time the Pistons had run off to a 17-point lead. The two teams, with D...