Updated: 7:42 PM EDT Apr 11, 2021 By Arnie Stapleton, AP Sports Writer Brad Stevens could sense the game slipping away. He could feel the rim-rattling dunks and the transition buckets coming.Instead of Boston bowing to the NBA s hottest team, though, the Celtics used an epic 31-3 run to halt the Denver Nuggets eight-game winning streak with a stunning 105-87 win on Sunday.“We just needed something to get us going,” Stevens said after his Celtics won for the fifth time in six games. “You know, I thought we were close to going the other way there when it was 76-62.”Jayson Tatum (illness) and Jaylen Brown (knee) fueled the comeback despite being listed as questionable before tip-off.Tatum finished with 28 points two days after a career-best 53-point performance against Minnesota, and Brown had 20.The Nuggets looked well on their way to their ninth straight win when they took a 79-65 lead late in the third quarter on a 3-pointer by Facundo Campazzo.That s when