BOSTON — The Celtics ran out of comebacks Tuesday night.

After rallying twice from down double-digits in the game, and taking a three-point lead with two minutes to go in overtime, the Celtics allowed the final six points of the night to the New Orleans Pelicans in a 116-113 loss at TD Garden.

The defeat ends Boston’s seven-game win streak.

An Al Horford 3-pointer and Kyrie Irving basket put the Celtics up 109-108 with 3:55 left in overtime. Anthony Davis — who dominated with 45 points with 16 rebounds — gave the Pelicans the lead when Jaylen Brown answered with a put-back and Marcus Smart scored for a 113-110 Celtics lead with 2:05 to go.

DeMarcus Cousins and Jrue Holiday then came right back and it was the Pelicans up 114-113 on the 17th led change of the night with 1:22 to play.

Brown got bottled up on a drive out a timeout and Holiday made it a three-point game with 54 seconds to play. After a Marcus Morris 3-pointer rimmed out, Morris rebounded a miss with 11 seconds left. Brad Stevens elected not to call timeout and Irving missed a potential tying 3-pointer with 2.5 seconds on the clock.

The Celtics nearly came up with the steal on the inbounds once, but Rajon Rondo was able to get it in deep in the backcourt to Holiday. New Orleans was then forced to inbound the ball again after a foul with 1.6 seconds to play, but the clock ran out in the fight for the loose ball.

Locked in a 95-95 game with 5:26 to go in the fourth after rallying back from a double-digit deficit in both the third and fourth quarters, Irving drilled a second-chance 3-pointer for the lead with 5:04 to go. Holiday got one back from the line when Daniel Theis drilled a kickout 3-pointer from Irving for a 101-96 lead with 3:46 to play.

The teams traded a pair of empty possessions as the clock ticked under two minutes to play when Ian Clark made it a three-point game off an Irving turnover with 1:50 left. The Celtics missed another chance to extend the lead with 1:35 on the clock and Holiday tied it with a 3-pointer with 1:25 remaining.

 Irving then misfired from deep, but came up with the steal in the backcourt and got the line for one of two free throws and a 102-101 lead with 1:00 on the clock. Davis got to the line out of a timeout and put the Pelicans back up one with 54.3 seconds to go and Irving was off the mark on a drive.

Smart tied up Clark for a jump ball on the rebound, but the Pelicans won the jump with 13 seconds separating the game and shot clocks. Davis drew a foul on Jayson Tatum and made it a two-point game with 20.2 seconds left at the line into a timeout.

Down two with 20.2 seconds to play, the Celtics went to Irving out of a timeout and he drove for the 104-104 tie with 11.8 on the clock.

A kicked ball gave the ball to the Pelicans on an inbounds play with 1.5 seconds on the clock and Cousins was off the mark on a long 3-pointer at the buzzer to force overtime.

Irving scored 24 of his 27 points in the second half and overtime. Jaylen Brown and Smart each scored 16 points and Al Horford had 14 points, nine rebounds and six assists for the Celtics.

Cousins had 19 points and 15 rebounds for the Pelicans.

Celtics great Jo Jo White dead at 71

Steve Bulpett of The Boston Herald reported shortly before Tuesday’s game that Celtics legend Jo Jo White died at the age of 71 after a bout with cancer.

White was a seven-time All-Star and two-time world champion with the Celtics. His No. 10 is retired and hangs in the TD Garden rafters.

"He was a champion and a gentleman, supremely brilliant and talented on the court, and endlessly gracious off it," the Celtics said in a team statement. "His contributions to the team's championship legacy may have only been surpassed by the deep and lasting impact that he had on the community.

"The thoughts and sympathies of the entire Celtics organization are with the White family."