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MIAMI — The Boston Celtics offered a reminder Saturday night at Kaseya Center of why they finished the season with the NBA’s best record and entered this opening-round Eastern Conference playoff series against the Miami Heat as overwhelming favorites. While there won’t be a sweep after the Heat’s shocking Game 2 victory Wednesday night at TD Garden, there might yet be the expected four blowouts. Saturday, there was another one, with the Celtics pushing their lead to 29 on the way to a 104-84 decision to put them up 2-1 in this best-of-seven matchup.

After the Miami Dolphins completed their seven-player draft class with five picks Saturday, the team’s brass got to work on bringing in their top remaining prospects as undrafted free agents. One target they reached an agreement with is one of the more intriguing players in the 2024 class, Bayron Matos, a USF basketball player from the Dominican Republic who walked on to the football team but never played in any games. Along with Matos, the Dolphins are signing, according to a league source: FAU wide receiver Je’Quan Burton, Louisville cornerback Storm Duck, Syracuse defensive back Isaiah Johnson, Ohio State offensive lineman Matthew Jones, UCLA defensive lineman Grayson Murphy, TCU safety Mark Perry, Texas-El Paso quarterback Gavin Hardison and his center at UTEP, Andrew Meyer.

TAMPA — Steven Stamkos scored his fourth and fifth goals of the series and the Tampa Bay Lightning avoided elimination with a 6-3 victory over the Florida Panthers in Game 4 of the first-round playoff matchup Saturday night. Game 5 is Monday night at Florida. Only four times in 206 tries has an NHL team rebounded from a 3-0 deficit to win a series. “The odds aren’t great being down 3-zip,” Stamkos said.

MIAMI GARDENS — There’s muted excitement regarding the Miami Dolphins’ 2024 draft, and with good reason. It doesn’t seem that the Dolphins, who had first- and second-round picks for the first time since 2021, didn’t move the needle much among their fans. There’s a perception, correctly or incorrectly, that the Dolphins’ 2024 draft is preparing the team to make a playoff run in 2025 — not 2024. Here’s a closer look at each of the Dolphins’ draftees and how they might fit into the team:  Edge rusher Chop Robinson, Penn State, first round (No.

Javion Cohen left Alabama, which consistently puts players in the NFL, to come to Miami for his final season. The decision worked out, as the Cleveland Browns reportedly signed Cohen after the NFL draft ended on Saturday, according to Bleacher Report. “I feel like I was blessed and anointed for this position,” Cohen said at Miami’s Pro Day in March.