For the fifth time, Heat play Celtics in playoffs. Here’s a look at their history.

From the Big 3 Era to the bubble, the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics are meeting for the third time in 10 years when the Eastern Conference finals begin Tuesday.

In fact, it’s the fourth time the teams are squaring off in the playoffs since 2010.

That first encounter didn’t go the Heat’s way, but the past three playoff matchups have seen the Heat end the Celtics’ season.

Here’s a look at the playoff history between the two franchises:

2010

The first time the teams met in the playoffs resulted in little trouble for the Celtics. Despite Dwyane Wade averaging 33.2 points per game in the first-round series, Boston eliminated the Heat in five games of the best-of-7 series.

2011

The Heat’s Big 3 Era of Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh meets the Celtics Big 3 of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen for the first time in the playoffs.

The second-round series is a reversal from the year before with the Heat knocking out the Celtics in five games.

2012

For the third straight season, the Heat and Celtics met in the playoffs. But this was the first time they would meet in the Eastern Conference finals. And it was the first time a series between the teams went the distance.

After the Heat eliminated the Celtics in seven games, LeBron James finally captured his first NBA championship when the Heat defeated the Thunder in the NBA Finals.

And by July 2012, Hall of Famer Allen received backlash from his former Celtics teammates after leaving Boston to join Miami, turning down a two-year, $12 million deal from the Celtics to sign a three-year, $9.5 million contract with the Heat.

“This is my whole deal with Ray. One, he went to our rival,” retired Celtics great Paul Pierce said during an appearance on the “All the Smoke” podcast earlier this year. “LeBron James was a rival of the Celtics, regardless if he was in Cleveland or Miami. Those were some of the [most] heated matchups. It was just like ‘damn, they just beat us, and then you’re going to go over there.’”

The feud, though, among Pierce, Garnett and Allen was buried in March when Allen was at Garnett’s jersey retirement ceremony in Boston.

2013

The teams didn’t meet in the playoffs, but the rivalry intensified when Heat president Pat Riley responded to then-Celtics president Danny Ainge’s crticisim of then-Heat star LeBron James.

“Danny Ainge needs to shut the [expletive] up and manage his own team,” Riley said in a statement released through a Heat spokesman in March 2013. “He was the biggest whiner going when he was playing, and I know that because I coached against him.”

2019

While the teams didn’t meet in the playoffs in 2019, it’s noted that retired Celtics star Pierce reignited some tension into the rivals while working as an ESPN analyst.

He was asked during the network’s NBA broadcast in April 2019 who was better between himself and D-Wade.

“That’s easy, I can say that off the bat,” Pierce said. “That’s me.”

2020

For the fourth time in franchise history, the Heat met the Celtics in the playoffs, though there wouldn’t be any rabid fans in attendance. The COVID-19 global pandemic put the teams inside the Walt Disney Bubble, where the Heat eliminated the Celtics in six games.

It was the third straight time the Heat eliminated the Celtics when they met in the playoffs. The Heat later lost the NBA Finals to James-led Los Angeles Lakers.