Celtics vs. Mavericks, Game 4, LIVE STREAM (14.06.24): Watch NBA Finals online

The Boston Celtics will try to defeat the Dallas Mavericks in game four of the 2024 NBA Finals.

The Celtics will visit the Mavericks on Friday, June 14, 2024 (12.6.24) at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.

Fans can watch the game via free trials of DirecTV Stream (free trial) or fuboTV. Plus, SlingTV is offering $25 off any package for the first month or a three-month subscription for just $90.

What you need to know:

What: NBA Finals, Game 4

WHO: Boston Celtics at Dallas Mavericks

When: Friday, June 14, 2024 (14.6.24)

Time: 8:30 p.m. ET

Where: American Airlines Center

TV: ABC, ESPN Sports

Station finder: Verizon Fios, Xfinity, Spectrum, Optimum/Altice, Cox, DirecTV

Live broadcast: fuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial), SlingTV ($25 off)

Here is a recent AP story on the NBA Finals:

DALLAS (AP) — It's over. That's what the numbers say. The Boston Celtics will soon, perhaps very soon, celebrate their record-breaking 18th championship. They lead the NBA Finals 3-0, a lead that has never been blown in an NBA series.

The statistics are absolute.

To the Celtics' credit, they don't take anything for granted.

On perhaps the penultimate day of the 78th NBA season, the Celtics — who could defeat the Dallas Mavericks in Game 4 on Friday night — were desperately trying to keep things as normal as possible with the team's first title in 16 years just one win away.

“Ultimately, we are the most vulnerable in this situation,” said Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla, who at 35 could become the youngest coach to win a title since Bill Russell won one as a player-coach for Boston in 1969. “So we have to maintain a sense of urgency. We have to understand our environment. We have to know that we are just as vulnerable as anyone else in this situation, and how we handle it will determine our fate.”

His point: Don't let up. A team that went 79-20 through the first 99 games of the season — well on its way to the second-best single-season record in Celtics history — would probably be wise to do what worked all year again.

“You either survive or you don't,” Celtics forward Jaylen Brown said, echoing something Mazzulla told the team earlier Thursday. “That speaks to me.”

It may seem puzzling that the Celtics, a 3-0 team, are talking about survival and vulnerability, but in reality, it is clearly the Mavericks who are being backed into the corner from which no NBA team has ever successfully escaped.

They lost 5-0 to Boston this season. They were outscored nearly 2-1 on three-point shots in that series. In Game 3, a 13-point lead on home soil turned into a 21-point deficit. It's hard to find the proverbial silver lining right now, though the Mavs insist they still have hope.

“We're not in the offseason yet,” Mavericks star Luka Doncic said. “They have to win one more game. Like I said, we're going to believe until the end.”

There were no admissions from Dallas on Thursday, no signs of surrender. But there was an understanding of how high this mountain is – 0-3 – and that no one in the NBA has yet managed to climb it.

Boston came close last year when they overcame a three-game deficit and forced a seventh game at home against Miami in the Eastern Conference finals, only to lose. And that came after the Celtics lost the 2022 NBA Finals to Golden State, which also ended in Boston. Those were learning experiences. These Finals will be one for the Mavs, too.

“If you look at the Celtics, they lost to the Warriors two years ago. They lost to Miami in Game 7 (last season). So it's just experience, understanding that you're not guaranteed to come back, that you have to work,” Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said. “You see the group that's out there today. They know how to play. They're a really good team.”

By Friday night they could be a championship team.

Of course, the only way the Celtics can lose this series is to lose the next four games. Forget the statistic that teams with a 3-0 lead in a best-of-seven series are unbeatable—156 teams have led 3-0, 156 teams have ultimately prevailed in this series. Instead, consider this—the last time the Celtics lost four games in a row in the same season was in May 2021, before two coaching changes and a whole host of roster moves.

“I think from our experiences over the last few years, we know we can't sit back and get complacent. From game to game or series to series, we always want more,” Celtics forward Jayson Tatum said. “Maybe sometimes in the last few years we've taken things for granted or been happy to make it to certain rounds, but now we're not satisfied. Even now that we're up 3-0, nobody's celebrating or anything. We still feel like we can do a lot more. We want to do a lot more.”

There's really only one thing left for this Celtics team to do. One more win and Banner 18 – breaking the tie with the Los Angeles Lakers for the most championships in NBA history – would finally be secured.

Mazzulla doesn't care when it happens, just that it happens.

“There are four rounds left in this fight,” he said. “And however long it takes, however long it takes, we'll see how it goes.”

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