At this point, I'm convinced the media talking heads only hyped mavs up because they know celtics is the most hated franchise and if they flat out all said celtics had it in the bag, many wouldn't tune into the finals except c's fans. Afterall, NBA ratings have been trash in the last how many years. Too easy for them to do since most of them already have their own personal biases against the celtics.
Such a good point. Vegas always knows the deal. Talking head cater to whichever way the winds blow. Winds wanted us to believe the Mavs were a good basketball team, when really they were two great players making other decent players look special. The Celtics were 2 superstars and 4 all stars blended together in perfect harmony with some solid bench contributors
The argument that they played teams with injured stars just means those teams have a convenient excuse for getting their asses kicked. The C's had a star player injured and did a lot less whining.
Congrats to the Celtics; they deserved it for their hard work. I love the Jays. Brown definitely deserved Finals MVP. He made it a mission to show the world that the 300 million contract the Celtics gave to him was worth it.
When you have a moment go through the box scores and compare browns stats vs. Holidays. Then i want to see you post brown as the deserving m.v.p. it wont happen. You will praising holiday!
And tatum has played in 10 or 11 finals games. For the amount of shots he has taken compared to every finals player in history with at least his many shots and ypur golden boy tatum has the lowest f.g. pct. In n.b.a. history. Did you even watch the games?
@@stephendimino332 they've worked hard, harder than us in the comments. I agree, jrue in my mind deserved it and brown out performed tatum in my brain. celtics fan
And I like the attitude of the Boston Celtics players who don't want to care what the media says about them and stay focused on what's on the basketball court?
The Celtics play as a team and don’t rely on one or two players. Nobody tried to be selfish or play hero ball. They also care more about defense which is why they won ultimately. Their starting five are all just as good on defense as offense.
@@Lach1234 everyone on the Celtics was 100% consistent in the game of basketball. The Jays didn’t have to put up a lot of points every night just to guide the team to a win. They had the right pieces around them to help them. I would take being a team player versus playing as an individual to win a championship
"Other teams had injured stars." "They've never been challenged." "The East was weak." These are YOUR problems, not Boston's and to wave it around like a victim flag does not make Boston's chip look worse. What it does is make everyone else look worse.
"Horford is old" "Adding Holiday won't change much" "Jaylen was overpaid" "Jayson isn't Top 5 because he doesn't average [this amount of] points" -Jayson gets triple doubles with under 20pts- "Jayson had a triple double, but only scored 17pts, he's not Top 5" 🗣️ - " What are they gonna say now?"
@@bentep0511 when you look at the Timberwolves they rely on Edwards to play hero ball a lot yes or no Towns can be a streaky shooter but they need more consistent players
every single word of this was spot on. I found it funny that the media said the '24 team won't win because the '22 team didn't, while simultaneously saying the '24 team wasn't battle tested.
The media wanted to split Jayson and Jaylen up for years. They were talking about Dallas non-stop as if they were up 3-1 vs Boston. 🗣️ "What are they gonna say now?"
Celtics had depth. They had guys that can play and defend multiple positions. Other teams had...that one guy they relied on to score 25+ and no bench. Lol
@@Relisocbro literally. Heat fans irk me the most with this. Like y’all realize Jimmy got hurt playing his heart out to AVOID the Celtics in the play in right? Shoulda just rested him vs Philly if you thought you’d beat the Celtics 😂
JB has been flourishing with the left hand for the entire season and JT, contrary to what the box score monkeys say, was great the entire playoffs with his playmaking and constantly opening up the opposition defense. Add to that the fact that every single Celtic player is a fantastic defender within their system, which is flexible enough to work against literally anyone (barring maybe Jokic), they should all deserve much more credit than they're given. One might almost think that the talking heads only watch box scores and highlights... oh wait. That's all they do...
Tatum has appeared in 10 or 11 finals games. For the amount of shots he has taken compared to every player in n.b.a. history with as many shots as tatum. Diva tatum has the lowest f.g. pct. In history.
@@stephendimino332 which is a statistic taken way out of context and ignores every single other good thing he's done in those games. Stop copying Skip Clueless. You're acting a fool.
Everybody from analysts to the regular non-celtic fan was saying Mavs in 5 or 6 and boy does it feel good that they not only proved them wrong, but did so in dominant fashion.
Kobe was given 09 championship....they were down 14 points with 10 minutes to go, and then kobe scores 17.....FROM THE FREETHROW LINE.....he just spun as he elbowed his defender, dropped his shoulder, drove to the hoop, and put up a shot as he ran into someone...FOUL, SHOOTING 2....so bullshit
Hey man I’m a die hard Celtics fan but let me tell you the only fluky thing about Lukas playoff run this year was him going out sad. That dude is LEGIT. He’s not gonna get embarrassed like that too many more times in his career. I mean I’m betting on him winning his first MVP this season
Yes. If you wanna get lost in the weeds the Celtics technically only have 5. In 1978 the Celtics were sold to Irv Levin who was looking to move the team to California the NBA wasn’t a fan of this so The Buffalo Braves became the Celtics , The Celtics would become the San Diego Clippers. The two teams swapped rosters and some trades resulted that became the 1979 Draft pick of Larry Bird and sent Cedrick Maxwell to the Celtics. So technically the clippers own rights to 13/18 Boston championships. This all happened under Red Aurbachs nose without his knowledge.
@@ErnieBert-eg8kd nah those things that you ve said wast even wrote in history but the Lakers old names/old franchise were Legit aka 1. Detroit Gems who moved in minnesota in 1947
@@Stephen_Jabs OKC does not count the super sonics chip. Doesn’t really matter with the lakers or Celtics. The league wants that classic rivalry to always remain. The interesting thing with the Celtics deal is that the front office remained. It was a weird deal
@@ErnieBert-eg8kdso what you’re saying is that the braves became the clippers. So what happened to the Celtics of Russell and Havlicek ‘s era of 14 chips. I’m confused . What are you saying?
And this is exactly why when I do watch the game, I watch them on MUTE! I don't want to hear anything those clowns have to say! Just wanna watch the game.
They were also the best 3pt shooting team in the league. Now you add their Defense to that. Destruction. They only lost one road game. It's insanity. The NBA is lucky that Porzingis didn't play. It would have been a massacre.
I think both sides are wrong in a way, I'd say congrats to the celtics for a very well deserved ring - having said that Jason tatum is objectively a cringe fest beyond belief.
All the 'experts" conveniently ignored Kristaps injury while whining about the Celtics playing against diminished squads; why? total L.A. bias. The Boston Celtics have 18 titles; the L.A Lakers have 12 - the other 5 came in Minnesota before the League was even integrated so, yes, they won 5 in an all white League. People forget that the Celtics drafted the first black player, were the first team to start 5 black players, and hired the first black coach (Bill Russell ) who became still the youngest coach to ever win a Title and of course the first black coach to claim a Championship. (he won 2). Celtics Rule, and the L.A Fakers / Losers need to accept their second class status. Despite buying all the superstars they could steal from other cities - Wilt, Kareem, Shaq, Pau, Lebron - they still trail Boston.
23-7 against the West too. Regular season matters. If you are the best team in the regular season you earn the right to the path of least resistance to the finals. Does that ensure a finals victory? No.
Also JB and JT basically won the finals with the same team just adding jrue that is a better version of smart. I love smart but Jrue is the guy we needed. Still we weren't fully healthy through these playoffs. So like Tatum said what are they going to say now. I mean i cant wait until more hate goes through so we can kick more ass 😂😂
I'm a long time Celtics fan being born in the 70's. I'm definitely biased. What I don't get is media after media sport personalities say that the Celtics playoff run was easier due to the others team best player being out for series or part of series. How come Porzingus is never mentioned??? Huge part of this team and he was out for almost every series?!?!?!
To the Media and that's a ton of u so call experts. Instead of pay attentions to what was right in front your face, u guys choose to find every and I mean every little reason to hate on the Celtics down to Lucky, was able convince yourself against Vegas and all the numbers to pick the Mavs. How do u expect fans to watch u guys and have any faith that u no what u talking about. When u are selling personal feelings not facts.
They literally gave game 4 away to the mavs so they could win at home. The Celtics did whatever they wanted to nba all year. They would’ve had more regular season wins too but they already clinched the one seed and rested their starters early at the end of games like the bulls, cavs and Knicks game.
The so-called sports analysts should be forced to watch these clips of their collective idiocies every day until the start of next season. As a lesson they hopefully will absorb that the childish metrics they embraced are worthless when it comes to team chemistry, excellent team play, great defense, and other elemental fundamentals that even a high school player would understand more than those clowns in suits.
I'll never forget after Game 4 that Derrick Lively said "We finally figured them out." In a game where Porzingis was out and Al was in foul trouble and Mazzulla being forced to play small ball... Lively actually said that. 🤡
These media personalities are just shills for the betting sites, and it makes me laugh that the mindless fans took the bait and bet on the Mavs LMAO But this @1:28 is probably the biggest clown of all LMAO Imagine truly believing that the Mavs had a chance
The NBA and NBA media humiliated themselves. They cherry-picked and created metrics like this whole 'hardest path by opponent win totals' while completely ignoring the fact that by established metrics this was an elite Celtics squad. They talked about how the Mavs had this elite offensive back court that was going to destroy the Celtics while refusing to mention that, per NBA players, Jrue is the best on-ball defender in the NBA and Derrick White is also elite and that, unlike the Celtics, the Mavs are heavily reliant on their two stars to initiate basically everything on the offensive end. I even heard someone talk about how the Celtics lacked reliable depth...as if the Mavs have a plethora of reliable talent to turn to on the bench (no offense to the Mavs, but their #3, 4, and 5 just can't compare to Porzingis, White and Jrue). I will say that the early season doubt was fair because of the recent Celtics' history. I think some of the criticism from a couple years ago (pre-Finals run) of the Jays is also fair. In the post-Kyrie seasons there was a legitimate question about whether JT/JB could figure it out together. Boston gambled that they could and they were right. The Jays did figure it out and they did learn to play off each other and that's been huge. Also, I said four years ago that if Tatum could take a step forward as a playmaker, the sky would be the limit for Boston and this was arguably his best season initiating offense.
Here's where it's going to get interesting if Celtics repeat some analysts will lose there jobs and Big Perk lose his Celtics card.....................banded...
People even complain about JB winning Finals MVP when the guy actually deserves it too. I mean, Iggy won it over Steph back in 2015 because of his "aura in defense" surrounding LeBron James.
The Celtics were 34-15 against .500 or better teams during the regular season. The Mavs? 25-27. Only Denver, OKC and Minnesota had anything approaching Boston's record, but really weren't that close- fewer wins and 20 or more losses.
Why is it only a big deal when Tatum's shooting isn't efficient? Kyrie only had one game where he shot decent...Luka was scoring 28-30 points but was doing it on 23-25 shots, not to mention he disappeared in the 4th for games 1-3...The talking heads didn't make a big deal out of that?
Everybody plays D on the Celtics, that's rare nowadays. There's no selfishness and the effort is always 110%. The culture of the Celtics is like the culture for Michigan in football. These boys built different
Nobody bothers to play hard during the regular 82 games, they say "oh it's hust reg. season games it doesn't matter" But when the playoffs start and your weak ass team is 8 seed and is pinned to play the 1 seed they act like they're the victims "oh we had a difficult path" - Maybe if 70% of the nba didn't play like G league teams and didn't depend on one player on the team to carry everyone things would have looked better for yall, until then, CELTICS own the nba 🙏🏼☘️
All they care about is having a superstar "aura". Look at the way they pushed the likes of Luka and Ant. They're so desperate to find that superstar who can singlehandedly carry their entire team to finals. That's why they don't like the Celtics. Everyone including NBA fans always think they're soft. Because they play unselfishly. Willing to put their own star spotlight to their teammates. Fans don't want that. Also defense is always underrated. Media prefers scoring more and hyping them up. No wonder most of their "superstars with auras" have cone defense.
Just look at the ESPN crew after Game 3! 😂😂😂 they were so mad! Especially Stephen A! God it felt so good shutting the world up! So now they’ll attack Tatum saying he’s a role player. I guess role players are one of only 7 players ever to lead their team in every stat!
The amount of hate JT gets is ridiculous. He’s probably like the 5th best player in the NBA, made all nba 3 times and is only 26. Hes played almost 100 more games than Embiid and hes 4 years younger. He has no weaknesses in his game and is a genuinely good guy.
I love how all 'experts' were going 'Luka and Kyrie are the best players in the series, no one can stop them!' First, Boston had many grrar defenders and, on the other hand, who exactly did Kyrie and Luka stop? Right, not a damn soul
Collective jealousy against the Celtics fueled by the media who cannot stand the fact that the C's now have more championships than their darling Hollywood Lakers.
Please do your research. Mark Cuban had already sold his controlling shares if the Mavs prior to the trade deadline and even if he hadn't- he would deserve zero credit (he was never in charge of basketball decisions like personal). Why do you speak of him like a G.M.?
It just shows how good we are because people said we had an easy path 😂😂 . Like y'all basically saying we are the better team and the series is pretty much over when one player goes down. Have you ever heard of a good front office. Even when KP got hurt through the whole playoffs basically we still kicked ass. Not our fault they could have gotten KP or jrue but we got them first 😂😂😂
If the Js got busted riding around with guns and got into trouble, the fans would love them like they love Jah. But they are both educated as well as ball players. Speak proper English and that's a no-no in the hood. It's that clear and simple.
Brown is not overpaid. Are people just forgetting he was the youngest person to ever lecture at Harvard? He could be doing anything other than playing in the NBA and still be making millions.
hhhhm sort of like they claim about Pritchard he will be effective in season not in plyoffs cause of size…. Yet Kyrie hs been an effective season player and busted in his own time and time again in playoffs. yet he always gets ohhh the best player argument lol! These arguments are superficial and can be debated either way
The Celtics finally shut these idiots up down for good like the Patriots did during Brady time here now lets hope the Bruins can shut up there annoying haters next now also when SAS pick the Mavs to win it everyone knew the Celtics were winning it all Stephen A Smith is the worst anaylast ever.
Celtics didn’t have Kp for the majority of the playoffs and even some games in the finals so an old Al horford had to step up an no one talks about that. Nothing is easy in this league. This was one of the best final runs ever.
I think the league fucked up again they wanted antman to be the face not jokic and games 1 and 2 of that series was fixed by the refs and when denver ran out of gas in game 7 they tried to compensate for fucking up games 1 and 2 but it was to late
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Humiliated the talking heads but not Vegas. Vegas said Cs in 5. Money.
Talking heads make money with exciting fantasies, and Vegas makes money with reality.
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At this point, I'm convinced the media talking heads only hyped mavs up because they know celtics is the most hated franchise and if they flat out all said celtics had it in the bag, many wouldn't tune into the finals except c's fans. Afterall, NBA ratings have been trash in the last how many years. Too easy for them to do since most of them already have their own personal biases against the celtics.
Such a good point. Vegas always knows the deal. Talking head cater to whichever way the winds blow. Winds wanted us to believe the Mavs were a good basketball team, when really they were two great players making other decent players look special. The Celtics were 2 superstars and 4 all stars blended together in perfect harmony with some solid bench contributors
Talking heads picked mavs to get sucker's to bet money on them. They all on the same team vegas and espn.
The argument that they played teams with injured stars just means those teams have a convenient excuse for getting their asses kicked. The C's had a star player injured and did a lot less whining.
THANK U BRO!!!! ❤❤❤❤
Man I say this all the time. Funny how quiet people get when you ask them what center the Celtics were starting most of the playoffs lmao.
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Bad argument anyway cause they dominated the West all season and had the best record in the East.
Injuries part of the game. Otherwise the C's would have been the first team to come back from 0-3 last year.
Congrats to the Celtics; they deserved it for their hard work. I love the Jays. Brown definitely deserved Finals MVP. He made it a mission to show the world that the 300 million contract the Celtics gave to him was worth it.
When you have a moment go through the box scores and compare browns stats vs. Holidays. Then i want to see you post brown as the deserving m.v.p. it wont happen. You will praising holiday!
And tatum has played in 10 or 11 finals games. For the amount of shots he has taken compared to every finals player in history with at least his many shots and ypur golden boy tatum has the lowest f.g. pct. In n.b.a. history. Did you even watch the games?
@@stephendimino332 they've worked hard, harder than us in the comments. I agree, jrue in my mind deserved it and brown out performed tatum in my brain. celtics fan
@@stephendimino332 I don’t go by the box score in basketball I watch the game
@@Explivious Theres other stuff to think besides "ball dont go in"
humilated the NBA and had them all crying! love it lmao.
Music to my ears lol
The Lakers kids were absolutely mad
And I like the attitude of the Boston Celtics players who don't want to care what the media says about them and stay focused on what's on the basketball court?
The Celtics play as a team and don’t rely on one or two players. Nobody tried to be selfish or play hero ball. They also care more about defense which is why they won ultimately. Their starting five are all just as good on defense as offense.
Yes it's fun to watch defense
Yup. The Jays can choose to play iso and get 30 pts each but what's the point if the team loses. They play the right way as a team
@@harrismust2851💯
Joe Mazzulla really said - Fuck Big 3s, I'm starting five guys that can score 20+. 😂
@@Lach1234 everyone on the Celtics was 100% consistent in the game of basketball. The Jays didn’t have to put up a lot of points every night just to guide the team to a win. They had the right pieces around them to help them.
I would take being a team player versus playing as an individual to win a championship
Mavs path to finals were great but it doesnt change the fact boston was still the most dominant team this season
In the words of Jayson Tatum🏀what are they going to say now.🏀🏀
I'm happy that Jaylen Brown got his ring back. Boston is the best🍀✌️🍀
"Other teams had injured stars."
"They've never been challenged."
"The East was weak."
These are YOUR problems, not Boston's and to wave it around like a victim flag does not make Boston's chip look worse. What it does is make everyone else look worse.
I know right and Miami just got a big man so is Miami a threat to Boston now
Boston’s third best shooter was out almost the entire playoffs. No one wants to have that conversation though
"Horford is old"
"Adding Holiday won't change much"
"Jaylen was overpaid"
"Jayson isn't Top 5 because he doesn't average [this amount of] points"
-Jayson gets triple doubles with under 20pts-
"Jayson had a triple double, but only scored 17pts, he's not Top 5"
🗣️ - " What are they gonna say now?"
Team basketball > "Best" back court in the NBA
Yes vs playing as individuals
@@bentep0511 when you look at the Timberwolves they rely on Edwards to play hero ball a lot yes or no
Towns can be a streaky shooter but they need more consistent players
On defensive end i would argue its the worst back court in the NBA.
@@edgarskalnins5390 🧢🧂
@@tylerriley2587how is that cap, kyrie and luka are objective defensive liabilities
every single word of this was spot on.
I found it funny that the media said the '24 team won't win because the '22 team didn't, while simultaneously saying the '24 team wasn't battle tested.
Ikr. The national sports media is,.for the most,.stupid. Especially Perk, SAS.and.Cowbell.
The 24 team made the entire NBA their bitch
Then they won the finals, still waiting to be battle tested lmao maybe next year
The media wanted to split Jayson and Jaylen up for years. They were talking about Dallas non-stop as if they were up 3-1 vs Boston.
🗣️ "What are they gonna say now?"
One of the most dominant teams from start of the season to the end in NBA history
celtics were without KP throughout most the playoffs but people don't like to mention that
Mid teams overreliant on their one star ride that guy into the ground then complain about them getting hurt. It’s laughable really
Celtics had depth. They had guys that can play and defend multiple positions. Other teams had...that one guy they relied on to score 25+ and no bench. Lol
Course not bc it doesn't fit their dumbass argument
@@Relisocbro literally. Heat fans irk me the most with this. Like y’all realize Jimmy got hurt playing his heart out to AVOID the Celtics in the play in right? Shoulda just rested him vs Philly if you thought you’d beat the Celtics 😂
all Celtics haters are still crying now, 😊
JB has been flourishing with the left hand for the entire season and JT, contrary to what the box score monkeys say, was great the entire playoffs with his playmaking and constantly opening up the opposition defense. Add to that the fact that every single Celtic player is a fantastic defender within their system, which is flexible enough to work against literally anyone (barring maybe Jokic), they should all deserve much more credit than they're given. One might almost think that the talking heads only watch box scores and highlights... oh wait. That's all they do...
Tatum has appeared in 10 or 11 finals games. For the amount of shots he has taken compared to every player in n.b.a. history with as many shots as tatum. Diva tatum has the lowest f.g. pct. In history.
@@stephendimino332 which is a statistic taken way out of context and ignores every single other good thing he's done in those games. Stop copying Skip Clueless. You're acting a fool.
I'd MOST definitely take a Celtics win if Tatum gets a triple double with only 12pts.
His rebounding and playmaking was amazing in the playoffs.
Old Red Auerbach would be lighting a victory cigar in heaven.
Kyrie Irving delivered on his promise to bring a championship to Boston 🤣
Mmhmm
Love this, everyone on hush mode
nothing but crickets
Everybody from analysts to the regular non-celtic fan was saying Mavs in 5 or 6 and boy does it feel good that they not only proved them wrong, but did so in dominant fashion.
Kobe was given 09 championship....they were down 14 points with 10 minutes to go, and then kobe scores 17.....FROM THE FREETHROW LINE.....he just spun as he elbowed his defender, dropped his shoulder, drove to the hoop, and put up a shot as he ran into someone...FOUL, SHOOTING 2....so bullshit
1:01 “The greatest backcourt in history”
WOOOOOOOOOAH!
woahwoahwoahwoahwoah…
Woah.
No.
Stop that.
What they going to say now 🏆
The Celtics don’t have a star the team is a star ⭐️ that’s the difference.
Charles Barkley was the only one that was right. I can’t believe those words just came out of my mouth. 😂
It's crazy that Skip is dumb enough to call any team "Finals frauds" for losing to the GSW. But then again...Skip Bayless.
Love it. Definitely kept the receipts. LFG Celtics🍀💚
What will they say now. Celtics showed that they were battle tested.
Great players also play defense. No D in Kyrie Erving and Luka Ončić.
Fluka Doncic got exposed by the C’s.
Hey man I’m a die hard Celtics fan but let me tell you the only fluky thing about Lukas playoff run this year was him going out sad. That dude is LEGIT. He’s not gonna get embarrassed like that too many more times in his career. I mean I’m betting on him winning his first MVP this season
lakers only have 12 rings the other 5 is from minnesota am I right?
Yes. If you wanna get lost in the weeds the Celtics technically only have 5. In 1978 the Celtics were sold to Irv Levin who was looking to move the team to California the NBA wasn’t a fan of this so The Buffalo Braves became the Celtics , The Celtics would become the San Diego Clippers. The two teams swapped rosters and some trades resulted that became the 1979 Draft pick of Larry Bird and sent Cedrick Maxwell to the Celtics. So technically the clippers own rights to 13/18 Boston championships. This all happened under Red Aurbachs nose without his knowledge.
@@ErnieBert-eg8kd nah those things that you ve said wast even wrote in history but the Lakers old names/old franchise were Legit aka 1. Detroit Gems who moved in minnesota in 1947
@@Stephen_Jabs OKC does not count the super sonics chip. Doesn’t really matter with the lakers or Celtics. The league wants that classic rivalry to always remain. The interesting thing with the Celtics deal is that the front office remained. It was a weird deal
they still Lakers. clubs win championships not cities
@@ErnieBert-eg8kdso what you’re saying is that the braves became the clippers. So what happened to the Celtics of Russell and Havlicek ‘s era of 14 chips. I’m confused . What are you saying?
And this is exactly why when I do watch the game, I watch them on MUTE! I don't want to hear anything those clowns have to say! Just wanna watch the game.
They were also the best 3pt shooting team in the league.
Now you add their Defense to that.
Destruction.
They only lost one road game. It's insanity.
The NBA is lucky that Porzingis didn't play. It would have been a massacre.
I think both sides are wrong in a way, I'd say congrats to the celtics for a very well deserved ring - having said that Jason tatum is objectively a cringe fest beyond belief.
And no one gives a F*ck! 🤣
Nick Wright:By the time the Celtics adjust to playing real playoff basketball the Mavs are gonna be up 3-1
Clown …. Go read palms Nick !
Nick Wright is a fraud
His tweet Aged poorly
@@tylerriley2587 indeed
I guess you to be a complete idiot to be a nba pundit. see Kendrick Perkins, Nick Wrong & Skip Bayless
Nick Wright = sucks at his job. Stephen A.= phony. Skip Bayless= well, he just sucks...period 🤡.
more videos exposing these clowns please!
You can hear the crickets
For the inevitable Heat fan(s) that come to the comments to mention Jimmy. He played when y’all lost 143-110 to the Celtics.
And for more Heat fans that come -
Miami Heat were 33-27 with Jimmy Butler, and 13-9 without him this past season. 33 AND FREAKING 27!
All the 'experts" conveniently ignored Kristaps injury while whining about the Celtics playing against diminished squads; why? total L.A. bias. The Boston Celtics have 18 titles; the L.A Lakers have 12 - the other 5 came in Minnesota before the League was even integrated so, yes, they won 5 in an all white League. People forget that the Celtics drafted the first black player, were the first team to start 5 black players, and hired the first black coach (Bill Russell ) who became still the youngest coach to ever win a Title and of course the first black coach to claim a Championship. (he won 2). Celtics Rule, and the L.A Fakers / Losers need to accept their second class status. Despite buying all the superstars they could steal from other cities - Wilt, Kareem, Shaq, Pau, Lebron - they still trail Boston.
A real team! Bravo celtics!
Boston had an "easier" path to the finals because they'd already eaten all their eastern opposition during the regular season.
23-7 against the West too. Regular season matters. If you are the best team in the regular season you earn the right to the path of least resistance to the finals. Does that ensure a finals victory? No.
Also JB and JT basically won the finals with the same team just adding jrue that is a better version of smart. I love smart but Jrue is the guy we needed. Still we weren't fully healthy through these playoffs. So like Tatum said what are they going to say now. I mean i cant wait until more hate goes through so we can kick more ass 😂😂
I'm a long time Celtics fan being born in the 70's. I'm definitely biased. What I don't get is media after media sport personalities say that the Celtics playoff run was easier due to the others team best player being out for series or part of series. How come Porzingus is never mentioned??? Huge part of this team and he was out for almost every series?!?!?!
To the Media and that's a ton of u so call experts. Instead of pay attentions to what was right in front your face, u guys choose to find every and I mean every little reason to hate on the Celtics down to Lucky, was able convince yourself against Vegas and all the numbers to pick the Mavs. How do u expect fans to watch u guys and have any faith that u no what u talking about. When u are selling personal feelings not facts.
CRAZY that he's only 19 year old 😅🤣😂😅🤣🤣😂😂😅😅😂🤣😂😂😂😂🤣😂😅😅😅😂🤣😂😂😅😅😅😅😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😅😅😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
They literally gave game 4 away to the mavs so they could win at home. The Celtics did whatever they wanted to nba all year. They would’ve had more regular season wins too but they already clinched the one seed and rested their starters early at the end of games like the bulls, cavs and Knicks game.
The so-called sports analysts should be forced to watch these clips of their collective idiocies every day until the start of next season. As a lesson they hopefully will absorb that the childish metrics they embraced are worthless when it comes to team chemistry, excellent team play, great defense, and other elemental fundamentals that even a high school player would understand more than those clowns in suits.
they will not learn any lessons from this because as you said - they’re idiots, Kendrick Perkins leading the way
The harder playoff run was because Celtics had the best season so they deserve the easy path
Job not finished they going for back to back
If Kristaps Porzingis stay healthy next season & consistent 2025 playoffs Boston big chance get #19 banner next season 💯 no doubts 💪🔥💪
RUN IT BACK!!!🍀🍀🍀
I'll never forget after Game 4 that Derrick Lively said "We finally figured them out."
In a game where Porzingis was out and Al was in foul trouble and Mazzulla being forced to play small ball... Lively actually said that. 🤡
These media personalities are just shills for the betting sites, and it makes me laugh that the mindless fans took the bait and bet on the Mavs LMAO But this @1:28 is probably the biggest clown of all LMAO Imagine truly believing that the Mavs had a chance
Derrick White & Jrue Holiday INSANE BACK-COURT DEFENSE 💪🔥💪
The NBA and NBA media humiliated themselves. They cherry-picked and created metrics like this whole 'hardest path by opponent win totals' while completely ignoring the fact that by established metrics this was an elite Celtics squad. They talked about how the Mavs had this elite offensive back court that was going to destroy the Celtics while refusing to mention that, per NBA players, Jrue is the best on-ball defender in the NBA and Derrick White is also elite and that, unlike the Celtics, the Mavs are heavily reliant on their two stars to initiate basically everything on the offensive end. I even heard someone talk about how the Celtics lacked reliable depth...as if the Mavs have a plethora of reliable talent to turn to on the bench (no offense to the Mavs, but their #3, 4, and 5 just can't compare to Porzingis, White and Jrue).
I will say that the early season doubt was fair because of the recent Celtics' history. I think some of the criticism from a couple years ago (pre-Finals run) of the Jays is also fair. In the post-Kyrie seasons there was a legitimate question about whether JT/JB could figure it out together. Boston gambled that they could and they were right. The Jays did figure it out and they did learn to play off each other and that's been huge. Also, I said four years ago that if Tatum could take a step forward as a playmaker, the sky would be the limit for Boston and this was arguably his best season initiating offense.
Here's where it's going to get interesting if Celtics repeat some analysts will lose there jobs and Big Perk lose his Celtics card.....................banded...
Boston Celtics 2024 NBA WORLD CHAMPION 🏆
FMVP: Jaylen Brown
probably Celtics played LUka's ego than Luka himself and won easily. Smart.
People even complain about JB winning Finals MVP when the guy actually deserves it too. I mean, Iggy won it over Steph back in 2015 because of his "aura in defense" surrounding LeBron James.
The Celtics were 34-15 against .500 or better teams during the regular season. The Mavs? 25-27. Only Denver, OKC and Minnesota had anything approaching Boston's record, but really weren't that close- fewer wins and 20 or more losses.
Why even mention the lakers bubble chip everybody knows it does not count
I still remember when Nick Wright said that there were 16 players he could name that were better than Jayson Tatum... 🤡
Kiss the Ring...☘️🏆💍☝🏽
Jaylen Brown ENTER his 1st YEAR PRIMES 💪🔥💪
Why is it only a big deal when Tatum's shooting isn't efficient? Kyrie only had one game where he shot decent...Luka was scoring 28-30 points but was doing it on 23-25 shots, not to mention he disappeared in the 4th for games 1-3...The talking heads didn't make a big deal out of that?
As if Mark Cuban is making basketball decisions 😆
Everybody plays D on the Celtics, that's rare nowadays. There's no selfishness and the effort is always 110%. The culture of the Celtics is like the culture for Michigan in football. These boys built different
Nobody bothers to play hard during the regular 82 games, they say "oh it's hust reg. season games it doesn't matter" But when the playoffs start and your weak ass team is 8 seed and is pinned to play the 1 seed they act like they're the victims "oh we had a difficult path" - Maybe if 70% of the nba didn't play like G league teams and didn't depend on one player on the team to carry everyone things would have looked better for yall, until then, CELTICS own the nba 🙏🏼☘️
Ainge just draft 2 superstars back to back.. lmao. Both 2 way
All they care about is having a superstar "aura". Look at the way they pushed the likes of Luka and Ant. They're so desperate to find that superstar who can singlehandedly carry their entire team to finals.
That's why they don't like the Celtics. Everyone including NBA fans always think they're soft. Because they play unselfishly. Willing to put their own star spotlight to their teammates.
Fans don't want that. Also defense is always underrated.
Media prefers scoring more and hyping them up. No wonder most of their "superstars with auras" have cone defense.
Now what about nba champions against euroleague champions?
Just look at the ESPN crew after Game 3! 😂😂😂 they were so mad! Especially Stephen A! God it felt so good shutting the world up! So now they’ll attack Tatum saying he’s a role player. I guess role players are one of only 7 players ever to lead their team in every stat!
The amount of hate JT gets is ridiculous. He’s probably like the 5th best player in the NBA, made all nba 3 times and is only 26. Hes played almost 100 more games than Embiid and hes 4 years younger. He has no weaknesses in his game and is a genuinely good guy.
Bro deserves HELLA more likes
I love how all 'experts' were going 'Luka and Kyrie are the best players in the series, no one can stop them!'
First, Boston had many grrar defenders and, on the other hand, who exactly did Kyrie and Luka stop? Right, not a damn soul
The real tally is Boston Celtics 18, LA Lakers 12, Minneapolis Lakers 5. 😛
“2023, Joker was the best player. 2023 Curry was the best player” 🤣🤣
Collective jealousy against the Celtics fueled by the media who cannot stand the fact that the C's now have more championships than their darling Hollywood Lakers.
Please do your research. Mark Cuban had already sold his controlling shares if the Mavs prior to the trade deadline and even if he hadn't- he would deserve zero credit (he was never in charge of basketball decisions like personal). Why do you speak of him like a G.M.?
ALSO anyone who would take Kyrie over Tatum or Brown doesn't know ball in the slightest
It just shows how good we are because people said we had an easy path 😂😂 . Like y'all basically saying we are the better team and the series is pretty much over when one player goes down. Have you ever heard of a good front office. Even when KP got hurt through the whole playoffs basically we still kicked ass. Not our fault they could have gotten KP or jrue but we got them first 😂😂😂
If the Js got busted riding around with guns and got into trouble, the fans would love them like they love Jah. But they are both educated as well as ball players. Speak proper English and that's a no-no in the hood. It's that clear and simple.
Brown is not overpaid. Are people just forgetting he was the youngest person to ever lecture at Harvard? He could be doing anything other than playing in the NBA and still be making millions.
Perk is one name down the Celtics fans shitlist from Kyrie Irving and Rick Pitino. He's more likely to crap a duck boat than to ever ride one again.
the east had less wins on average because they played the C's more often... Should compare records excluding against the C's.
hhhhm sort of like they claim about Pritchard he will be effective in season not in plyoffs cause of size…. Yet Kyrie hs been an effective season player and busted in his own time and time again in playoffs. yet he always gets ohhh the best player argument lol! These arguments are superficial and can be debated either way
The Celtics finally shut these idiots up down for good like the Patriots did during Brady time here now lets hope the Bruins can shut up there annoying haters next now also when SAS pick the Mavs to win it everyone knew the Celtics were winning it all Stephen A Smith is the worst anaylast ever.
47-48 wins is not too far from 50. The commentators got a big helping of humble pie.
The 2008 Celtics team had better players and was overall so much better than that lakers team.. so no Kobe shouldn’t have beaten them
Celtics didn’t have Kp for the majority of the playoffs and even some games in the finals so an old Al horford had to step up an no one talks about that. Nothing is easy in this league. This was one of the best final runs ever.
Jaylen brown is absolutely not the worst dunker in dunk history he sucked at the dunk competition maybe sure but the worst dunker ever? Come on now!
Cuban had nothing to do with mavs trades this year....he sold the team.......
Our local sports media in Boston is just as bad. Doesn’t matter though, just count the banners.
Nick Wright should be fired and banned from TV
All I'm gonna say is I never wanna hear the Bucks ring called a hospital ring ever again...
Can’t believe these clowns act as experts but have zero knowledge
I think the league fucked up again they wanted antman to be the face not jokic and games 1 and 2 of that series was fixed by the refs and when denver ran out of gas in game 7 they tried to compensate for fucking up games 1 and 2 but it was to late
Boston celtics are the best team because they won the most championships 18 championships
08 Kobe was not better than 08 KG. Let's not just say stuff like Kobe was the best matter of fact.
Good thing denver was knocked out( on some bullshit)
Yessir my Celtics 2024 champs and screw those haters
This easily can turn into a dynasty. The hard part is over. Now they know.